Music as Biology : The Tones We Like and Why

Harvard University Press

Music as Biology\nby Dale Purves\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Dale Purves\nTitle: Music as Biology\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Neurosciences\nPublisher: Harvard University Press\nISBN-13: 9780674545151\nISBN-10: 067454515X\nRRP: \u00A329.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nWhy do human beings find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out the billions that are possible? Dale Purves shows that rethinking music theory in biological terms offers a new approach to centuries-long debates about the organization and impact of music.\n\nWhy do human beings find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only .