From: Timothy Bates (tbates@bunyip.bhs.mq.edu.au)
Date: Mon Nov 16 1998 - 22:36:58 MST
Hi all
Max M wrote:
>As a long time musician (+15 Years) I am absolutely convinced that music is
>no more than a stylised abstraction of the human language!
...
>It would also explain what a musical genre is.
...
>Any music we don't know ususally seems boring and superficial. That is
>probably because we don't understand the "language"
You have additional support from the finding that in non musicians, there
is a right hemisphere advantage for music while in trained musicians,
this shifts to the left hemisphere: it is "lingufied"
OF course the right hemisphere has an ability to read single words and
remains the seat of prosody (roughly the equivalent of rhythm).
cheers,
tim
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