From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 15:23:09 MST
> Evolution of Music and Myth both start with Language
>
> Myths <== From Language ==> Music
> emphasizes emphasizes
> meaning sound
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> Amara
Is music the art of thinking with sounds?
Is music semantic? [i.e. march, thrilling, western spaghetti music]
Is mythology the art of thinking with [?] themes?
-serafino
BTW
Dr. Peter E. Ostwald (who studied harmony with Arnold Schoenberg)
has encountered *synaesthesia* as a form of psychological disturbance.
Cases of crossed reactions to sensory stimuli, seeing colors that correspond
to particular sounds, for example, are reported from time to time, and some
authorities think the experience is not uncommon. Dr. P.E. Ostwald
(at [?] University of California, Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco)
estimates that as many as 14 percent of men and 31 percent of women
experience some kind of double sensation, usually color hearing, and he
notes that medical papers describing the phenomenon date back at least 200
years. Usually there is a pitch relationship: low sounds are associated with
dark colors. Vowels and pure tones come through as more defined in hue
than consonants or noise...
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