À propos de ce cours : The course will explore the tone combinations that humans consider consonant or dissonant, the scales we use, and the emotions music elicits, all of which provide a rich set of data for exploring music and auditory aesthetics in a biological framework. Analyses of speech and musical databases are consistent with the idea that the chromatic scale (the set of tones used by humans to create music), consonance and dissonance, worldwide preferences for a few dozen scales from the billions that are possible, and the emotions elicited by music in different cultures all stem from the relative similarity of musical tonalities and the characteristics of voiced (tonal) speech. Like the phenomenology of visual perception, these aspects of auditory perception appear to have arisen from the need to contend with sensory stimuli that are inherently unable to specify their physical sources, leading to the evolution of a common strategy to deal with this fundamental challenge.
Créé par :  Duke University
Enseigné par :  Dale Purves, M.D.
Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
| Langue | English, Sous-titres : Spanish |
| Comment réussir | Réussissez tous les devoirs notés pour terminer le cours. |
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Programme de cours
SEMAINE 1
Course Introduction
Introduction to Music as Biology
1 vidéo, 2 lectures
- Reading: A Word About the Course
- Discussion Prompt: Music as Biology: In Your Own Words
- Reading: Feedback surveys
Sound Signals, Sound Stimuli, and the Human Auditory System
An overview of the organization of the human auditory system, and how sound signals are transformed into sound stimuli.
4 vidéos, 3 lectures
- Reading: Module Resources
- Reading: An Overview of the Human Auditory System
- Vidéo: Sound Signals and Sound Stimuli
- Discussion Prompt: Distinction Between Sound Signal and Sound Stimuli
- Vidéo: Tones versus Noise
- Discussion Prompt: Harmonic Series
- Vidéo: Determining the Sources of Sound Stimuli
- Discussion Prompt: Auditory Perception
- Reading: Feedback survey
- Discussion Prompt: Thinking About Music as Biology: Week 1
Noté: Sound Signals, Sound Stimuli, and the Human Auditory System
SEMAINE 2
The Perception of Sound Stimuli
An introduction to the sound qualities we perceive, and how and why these qualities differ from the information in sound signals.
5 vidéos, 2 lectures
- Reading: Module Resources
- Vidéo: Pitch and Frequency
- Vidéo: Timbre and its Causes
- Discussion Prompt: Correlates and How They Differ
- Vidéo: Observation and Linguistics
- Vidéo: Auditory Objects and Scenes
- Discussion Prompt: Thinking About Music as Biology: Week 2
- Reading: Feedback survey
Noté: The Perception of Sound Stimuli
SEMAINE 3
Vocalization and Vocal Tones
A discussion of the nature of vocal sound signals, their biological importance and their role in understanding music.
5 vidéos, 2 lectures
- Reading: Module Resources
- Discussion Prompt: Human Vocalization
- Vidéo: The Perception of Vocal Sound Signals
- Vidéo: The Perception of Intensity (Loudness) in Empirical Terms
- Vidéo: The Perception of Frequency (Pitch) in Empirical Terms
- Discussion Prompt: Share Your Work!
- Vidéo: Relationship of Vocalization to Music
- Discussion Prompt: Thinking About Music as Biology: Week 3
- Reading: Feedback survey
Noté: Vocalization and Vocal Tones
SEMAINE 4
Defining Music and Exploring Why We Like It
The tonal phenomena that need to be explained in any theory of music, and different approaches that have been take to provide answers.
9 vidéos, 2 lectures
- Reading: Module Resources
- Discussion Prompt: Defining Music
- Vidéo: The Chromatic Scale and Some More Musical Terminology
- Discussion Prompt: Share Your Work!
- Vidéo: Consonance and Dissonance
- Vidéo: Tonality vs. Atonality: Frequency of Consonant vs. Dissonant Intervals
- Vidéo: Tension and Resolution
- Vidéo: Cadences
- Discussion Prompt: Explanations of Consonance
- Vidéo: Mathematical Explanations of Consonance
- Vidéo: A Physical Explanation of Consonance
- Vidéo: A Biological Explanation of Consonance
- Reading: Feedback survey
Noté: Defining Music and Exploring Why We Like It
SEMAINE 5
Musical Scales
Why a small number of basic scales are used in music worldwide, and how a biological framework explains this and related puzzles.
6 vidéos, 2 lectures
- Reading: Module Resources
- Discussion Prompt: Tuning Systems
- Vidéo: The Small Number of Scales Used
- Discussion Prompt: Scales
- Vidéo: Testing a Biological Explanation of Scale Preference
- Discussion Prompt: Biological Explanation of Scale Preference
- Vidéo: Why Is the Number of Intervals in Scales So Limited?
- Vidéo: The Status of the Chromatic Scale and the Semitone in Biological Terms
- Vidéo: Is Music Uniquely Human?
- Reading: Feedback survey
Noté: Musical Scales
SEMAINE 6
Music, Emotion, and Cultural Differences
How emotion is conveyed by vocal similarity in music across cultures, and how the speech of a culture and its music are related. A summing up of the major points in the course follows.
7 vidéos, 4 lectures
- Reading: Module Resources
- Discussion Prompt: Relevancy of Emotion
- Vidéo: Emotions Elicited by Major versus Minor Scales
- Reading: Mozart Variation 8, "Minor"
- Reading: Mozart Variation 9, "Major"
- Vidéo: Comparision of Major and Minor Music with Vocalization in Different Emotional States
- Vidéo: Expression of Emotion in Eastern and Western Music
- Vidéo: Language, Speech, and Cultural Differences in Music
- Vidéo: Mbira Music: Background and Cyclical Structures
- Vidéo: Mbria Music: Nonhamronic Frequencies
- Discussion Prompt: Culturally Different Music
- Discussion Prompt: Your Takeaway
- Discussion Prompt: Music as Biology: Summing Up
- Reading: Feedback survey
Noté: Music, Emotion, and Cultural Differences
Noté: Summing Up
Additional Resources
Additional demonstrations and commentaries by Ruby Froom on some of the musical issues considered in the course, as well as a glossary of terms and bibliography for references.
6 vidéos, 16 lectures
- Reading: Mozart Theme
- Reading: Mozart Variation 2, ornamentation
- Reading: Mozart Variation 5, rhythmic sync
- Reading: Mozart Variation 8, "Minor"
- Reading: Mozart Variation 9, "Major"
- Vidéo: Derivations of the Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales
- Reading: Minor Scale Analysis in BWV 002
- Vidéo: Cadences
- Reading: Music Theory Rules
- Reading: BWV 002 Harmonic Analysis
- Reading: BWV 65.2 Harmonic Analysis
- Reading: BWV 133.6 Harmonic Analysis
- Vidéo: Berg Lieder
- Reading: Schliesse Mir Die Augen Beide
- Reading: Tonal Version Sheet Music
- Reading: Atonal Version Sheet Music
- Vidéo: Background and Cyclical Structure
- Vidéo: Nonharmonic Frequencies
- Reading: Glossary A-O
- Reading: Glossary P-W
- Reading: Bibliography
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The content of the course is absolute gold. The course provides some answers (or at least partial answers) to very intriguing questions in music: Why these notes and not others? Why is a minor scale "sad" ? and other related questions. The only real issue is the that the quiz questions are just garbage, so be prepared to be frustrated that after learning some new material and having some real "aha!" moments you will fail the quiz because the questions don't really seem to reflect the important points.
It was a nice experience to learn about the Biology of the music. Very complete and explained course. Thanks
Musica como biologÃa....Esperaba más biologÃa. Como y porque nos afecta la música y como podemos utilizarla para sonoterapia. En términos generales, musica como biologÃa es un buen inicio para tomar conocimientos del tema. Gracias.
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Really informative and superbly in depth