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Of the four things that make this world habitable......Music is number on the list. Don't ask for the other three @mobbs....lolz
Lovely post @mobbs. This show cased your great knowledge of our harmonious tunes called music. I'm tempted to ask if you are a musician. Anyway, thanks for sharing this.

I am! Music is my primary love and current career path (aside from Steemit)!

I remember some IEEE conference where the presenters were talking about some neural network that had the task to "learn" what is "good" classical music and find it's own solutions.

For us, untrained people, it sounded ok.

Just like some basic rules of composition in photography (symmetry, flow, thirds...), it seems like we are all wired to like similar things.

I would vote for biology rather than culture.

Yep, agreed. I think the culture is the aspect that breaks it down and gives us the variety that we enjoy, each one giving its own flavour to the spread of western influence. Thanks for reading!

I can't help but to have my first thoughts go to thinking of our naturally rhythmic systems in our body! The heart first comes to mind. I think of the heart "BEAT" and it's significance musically in the Native American cultures in particular. I often have drawn from my native roots in that sense.

I also think of the electric rhythms of our brains and nervous systems. I think this could be where many world cultures probably get their inspirations from. Then again could it be the other way around? Does Art imitate Life... or is Life Imitating Art? Great post! I look forward to the follow up.

You raise some good points, and the body does have some notable rhythms aside from the heart - even the body's cells adhere to a particular 'tempo', something worth looking more into!

Yes, and I didn't want to mention it... but the menstrual cycle as well. I have seen some interesting data correlating some of the rhythms of our bodies to sun and lunar cycles as well. It seems EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED! Have you looked into CYMATICS? If not... THE PLOT THICKENS! hahaha

I'm with you on these views castleberry,
I would add some personal views too:
There are people that feels that internal rithms more than others but all of us own this skill. This point is well prooved by the fact that almost 100% of us like music and react unconsciously or not to it.
Every one has it's own preferences and different responses to the different music combinations they are exposed to. Cultural context and genetic patterns constantly sculps the individual musical perception as a whole.
Culture as a context is definetely a major factor on what we are .

Thank you for this great article. I enjoyed reading it. When you think about it, the scales we are used to are just like the decimal system. There is no reason not to use another system. The duodecimal system is even objectively better. But we are used to thinking in tens and hundreds.
A second part would be awesome :)

That's true! We are historically pretty inefficient people. Even language itself as it stands inhibits our ability to communicate specific ideas and emotions, to the point that often only a single language out there can express them... there's always a better way!

Yes, we have many of those in Germany. For example, green Jello is called Waldmeister-Götterspeise which literally translated means master-of-the-woods-food-of-the-gods. And then there is "weltschmerz", "schadenfreude", and "fernweh". You could write pages about them. Maybe I will do that 🤔

I found your work very interesting, I don't believe in Innatism but i still think that certain things linked to our subconscious, like Art and Music, can be in a certain way "written" in our genes.
Great job :)

Thanks. As stated there seems to be a lot more to look into and an annoyingly small amount of research is out there... I'll keep digging =)

It's true, there are so many evidence and so little studies about Innatism, mainly cause it's seen as a "old theory" by people that refuse to open their mind, as F. Zappa says "mind is like a parachutes..."
Best wishes for your diggin

There really is a reason why music is the food of the soul.. One way to look at that (which of course, this post validates) is the fact that one doesn't really have to learn music to "do music". Infact, as a creative art, there really shouldn't be a rule or a way to do music. I think it should be fluid, spontaneous and filled with expressions from the heart.

Yep and it often is. Some of the most enjoyable experiences of music is when people are just messing around, creating the first thing that pops out of their head. Rules are so often restrictive...

Music is life

Music is one of the best things we have, we put to work all the senses thanks to it. Excellent publication

Now I know why many think Enya is a sad song; her music must be in the minor scale, but I do love her music. This post is the first time I hear of the Pentatonic scale of music. That goes to show you can enjoy and be a huge fan of something without knowing what the heck it was.

Well, Enya's music is a little different. There are other modes and scales that are neither minor nor major that can sound sad. Likewise, major can be sad in the right context and style. With Enya, she keeps the tempo slow, the sound very roomy and choral and creates a more ethereal sound that people often feel reminiscent or ambivalent, which can be reduced in some as 'sad'... it can get very complicated lol. It's not like I know objectively what I'm talking about here

Lol. At least you make it look professional as I'm nodding like an agama lizard in agreement :)

Thank you so much mobbs for this interesting post.
I just commented on @castleberry comment and gave my view so I"m not going to be redundant.
We will be waiting for the next.
Cheers

Music is soul and maths!

Amazing post

Interesting article; you might want to also look into things like the physics of the harmonic series, and things like the changing significance of major/minor modes over time -- in Western music, the use of minor keys to denote sadness is a relatively recent development, which is why there's so much e.g. plainchant that sounds "sad" to modern ears despite having a happy topic).

And, of course, your definition of music might have a very different meaning to people who are Deaf or hearing-impaired! The ability to perceive differences in frequency (or pitch) is overwhelmingly common, but really not universal among humans.

It has been tough for me to decide what to discuss precisely because the science behind music always seems to cross over with philosophy and history, there's no way they can really be isolated from one another once you go deep enough. So yes these are all great suggestions, but in what order and format? who knows...

It's like we're all tuned to some kind of cosmic key. That Mcferrin video was amazing, the crowd was on point. There was a radiolab podcast that talked about language and perfect pitch.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91513-behaves-so-strangely/

Looking forward to your series.

intervals between notes much smaller than tones and semi-tones.

I notice this when I have to play to some unprofessional singers that don't have tuned ears. They just make me angry on the piano.

The Pentatonic scale, a scale that's so pleasant to the hears. I love playing it.
Sorry, my comment is huge today, music is my love. I love that video and I had to download it. The pentatonic scale is so wonderful when it comes to freestyling on Local African songs especially the 3/4 ones.

In short, if you think of a happy song, you can bet it's in a major scale. A sad song will invariably be in a minor scale

Now, I'm lost. I didn't know about this..

The last audio was interesting too. I'm gonn' learn that..
Nice post, @mobbs

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