Music as Biology : The Tones We Like and Why
Dale Purves (Author)
Why 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
eBook, English, 2017
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2017