What is it about?

Why music so strongly affects us? Why this ability to be affected by sounds emerged in evolution? Why we enjoy sad music , which cannot be listened without tears? Knowledge could be difficult to accept, unrequited love, betrayal by friends and loved one, knowledge about deaths. Music helps us to overcome these difficulties , continue to learn, and to evolve culture.

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Why is it important?

Music is a mystery. It was a mystery to Aristotle, Kant, Darwin, and still is a mystery to contemporary musicologists. Here is finally a scientific explanation of the mystery of music. Theoretical explanations are confirmed by experiments. Here is finally a scientific explanation of the mystery of music. Theoretical explanations are confirmed by experiments.

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a breakthrough discovery that solved a millennial mystery

Prof Leonid Perlovsky
Harvard University

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This page is a summary of: Music and Consciousness, Leonardo, August 2008, The MIT Press,
DOI: 10.1162/leon.2008.41.4.420.
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