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I would like to point list-members to this week's _The Economist_,
which has an interesting article called "The Biology of Music".
On-line at:
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_st5748.html)
A couple of very brief quotations:
Music is strange stuff. It is clearly different from language.
People can, nevertheless, use it to communicate things--especially
their emotions. And when allied with speech in a song, it is one of
the most powerful means of communication that humans have.
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That music does, indeed, elicit emotions--rather than merely expressing
an emotion that the listener recognises--has been shown more directly
by Carol Krumhansl, a psychologist at Cornell University. Dr Krumhansl
addressed the question by looking at the physiological changes (in
blood circulation, respiration, skin conductivity and body temperature)
that occurred in a group of volunteers while they listened to different
pieces of music.
Terry L Newstrom
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