Posted on 06/10/2019 7:51:50 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
"We found that a certain region of our brains has a stronger preference for sounds with pitch than macaque monkey brains,"
To test this, the researchers played a series of harmonic sounds, or tones, to healthy volunteers and monkeys. Meanwhile, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to monitor brain activity in response to the sounds. The researchers also monitored brain activity in response to sounds of toneless noises that were designed to match the frequency levels of each tone played.
"We found that human and monkey brains had very similar responses to sounds in any given frequency range. It's when we added tonal structure to the sounds that some of these same regions of the human brain became more responsive,"
"This finding suggests that speech and music may have fundamentally changed the way our brain processes pitch,"
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DAY AND MONTH!!! I GOT THAT WRONG ONLY A WEEK AGO AND DID IT AGAIN!!!!!
brain damage :(
At its first performance, Rhapsody in Blue resulted in boos, people walking out, and harsh critical reviews. Unthinkable.
Never heard of this before
What happens to the F# buzz at a lower tunung point?
Different song.
Foster’s “Swanee River” is “Way down upon the Swanee River...”
Gershwin’s song is “Swanee”: “Swanee. How I love ya, how I love ya...” One of his first successful songs. Lyric s by Irving Caesar. Made famous by Al Jolson.
Gershwin and Caesar were complaining about some of the popular music, and Gershwin allegedly said, “Irving, you and I could write a better song in 15 minutes.” So they did.
At its first performance, Rhapsody in Blue resulted in boos...
I have heard that.
We need a music maven to give the straight scoop.
I used to work with a real music maven from France.
A longhair kind of guy, I once almost accidentally killed him!
We were enjoying lunch and something about bananas came up.
So I said BEETHOVEN’S FAVORITE FRUIT!
He looked at me like I had three eyes?
Then I noted that he even wrote a song about bananas.
Now he is giving me the look, but being from France, to polite to call me any names.
He shakes his head and says NO!, I do not think so!
That is when I socked it to him.
BA-NA-NA-NA!!!
He laughed so hard he was choking, I thought he might pass out?
I can see the accident report, choked on a dumb joke.
Not my fault if that old joke never made it to France?
And as a memory aid to the score of Mozart’s Symphony 40 in G Minor, think...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Mozart...
And to Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyrie,
Giddy up horsie, giddy up horsie....
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