PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Fundamental Frequency, Cochlea, Auditory Cortex
22 Sep 2018
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Music has no obvious adaptive function, yet every culture has it . Common denominator two main functions of music: Music is universal: communication with infants singing to infants, calms them down, helps them to sleep, regulate mood, etc, also, always present during large gatherings of people. Music has two main features that make it perfectly suited to fit these functions . A sound quality corresponding to the level of pitch. A sound quality shared by tones that have the same octave interval: each note on the musical scale (a-g) has a different chroma, there is more to musical pitch than just frequency. Refers to the different notes on a musical scale. When two or more notes are played simultaneously, a chord, or sequentially, the combination may exhibit : consonance the combination sounds pleasant, as if the notes go together. , dissonance the combination sounds unpleasant, sounds off.
