Rodgers & Hammerstein
23/03/2020
As soon as upon a time there was nothing. With no focus, listeners’ ears open to the ambient sounds instead. Nature’s Music brings together a few of the world’s consultants on birdsong, to overview the advances which have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they’ve evolved.
In the final of nine Essays on science and music, John Sloboda argues that researchers should research music as individuals really experience it, if they’re to grasp the way it affects thoughts and emotions. Even when the group repeated the experiment with a separate group of 50 villagers using modified variations of their very own tribal songs, they discovered the identical results ( Nature , 535:547-50, 2016).
Not only do we not really know what nature appears like, we additionally don’t know what it feels like. Instead, because the African ethnomusicology …