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

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Music and the Arts: The Challenge of Funding Fundamental Theoretical Science

i'm talking about what are these, like, basic properties that contribute to musical pleasure. One o them is just consonance and dissonance, and the intrinsic pleasure we take in some sounds and intrinsic tension we hear in other sounds. Another feature that i talk about as being particularly important is what i call harmonic consistency. And by the way, if listeners are interested, they can type what makes music sound good into google and maybe add my name,. You'll find some cool audio demonstrations that, you know, you can play around with to explore these features. By the way, your listeners need to know, i'm playing with one hand. So for because of how my keyboard is so a

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