Re: [LAU] The Psychology of Music

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Subject: Re: [LAU] The Psychology of Music

Date: Monday, February 18, 2013 - 7:05 pm

On 02/18/2013 07:38 AM, Alf Haakon Lund wrote:

quoted text> On 08. feb. 2013 14:55, Stephen Stubbs wrote:

>> On 2/8/2013 1:43 AM, david wrote:

>>> http://visual.ly/psychology-music?utm_source=visually_embed

>>>

>> So now we have quantitative proof that the Ancient Greeks' views on

>> music were correct.

>>

>> Music is not an art but a science, with well defined laws that enable

>> the musician to induce specific effects and emotions in the listener.

>>

>> Refer to:

>> On Music in Three Books, by Aristides Quintilianus

>> Translation, with Introduction, Commentary, and Annotations by Thomas J

>> Mathiesen

>> 1983, Yale University Press

>> ISBN 0-300-02893-8

>>

>> 'The Other' Stephen Stubbs

>> Champaign, IL USA

>

> This made me want to recommend Musicophilia - Tales of Music and the

> Brain - by Oliver Sacks.

> ISBN 978-0-330-52359-2
Excellent book!
> And while music certainly can be viewed as 'science' there's no doubt in

quoted text> my mind that it also rightfully can be viewed as 'art' - those two are

> not mutually exclusive!
Art has been rooted in technology for thousands of years. Present day

art is saturated with technology (pigments and binders for paints,

ingredients of ceramic glazes).
And a list such as LAU, which has many members making sounds

algorithmically using tones generated by mathematical equations,

certainly can't claim to be purely "art" and not not "technology".
--

David

gnome@hawaii.rr.com

authenticity, honesty, community

http://clanjones.org/david/

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