Evolution of tonal organization in music mirrors symbolic representation of perceptual reality. Part-1: Prehistoric.

ABSTRACT: This paper reveals the way in which musical pitch works as a peculiar form of cognition that reflects upon the organization of the surrounding world as perceived by majority of music users within a socio-cultural formation. The evidence from music theory, ethnography, archeology, organology, anthropology, psychoacoustics, and evolutionary biology is plotted against experimental evidence. Much of the methodology for this investigation comes from studies conducted within the territory of the former USSR. To date, this methodology has remained solely confined to Russian speaking scholars. A brief overview of pitch-set theory demonstrates the need to distinguish between vertical and horizontal harmony, laying out the framework for virtual music space that operates according to the perceptual l

SUBMITTER: Nikolsky A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4607869 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature