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BL
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780550
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b600557
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by Philip Dorrell.
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What is music? : : solving a scientific mystery\ by Philip Dorrell.
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| Publication Statement
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[United Kingdom]: Philip Dorrell, 2005
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318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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1411621174
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: 9781411621176
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| Contents
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1. Introduction --; 2. What is music? --; 3. Existing music science --; 4. Sound and music --; 5. Vector analysis of musical intervals --; 6. The brain --; 7. 2D/3D theory of music --; 8. The perception of musicality --; 9. Symmetries --; 10. Musical cortical maps --; 11. Octave translation invariance --; 12. Calibration --; 13. Repetition --; 14. Final theory --; 15. Questions and further research --; 16. Review of assumptions --; 17. The future of music.
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| Abstract
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"This books outlines the author's new and original scientific theory about music - that music is a super-stimulus for the perception of musicality, where musicality is a perceived aspect of speech that provides information about the speaker's internal mental state"--Global Books In Print.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music and science.
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| LC Classification
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ML3800.B974 2005
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Philip Dorrell
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