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Dmitri Tymoczko on The Shape of Music: Mathematical Order in Western Tonality

COMPLEXITY

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The Evolution of Intelligence Across the Different Arts

i'm curious if you think that the increasing harmonic complexity of western music sugge s that we are collectively getting smarter about identifying the structures in this musical hyperspace. And so it seems, again, that both in the ways that we have already interrogated you now, tonal and a tonal music both evolve as an instance of this much more general process of the evolution of intelligence broadly. i'm curious what your thoughts are on that.

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