Evolution of Tonal Organization in Music Mirrors Symbolic Representation of Perceptual Reality. Part-1: Prehistoric.

This paper reveals the way in which musical pitch works as a peculiar form of cognition that reflects upon the organization of the surrounding world as perceived by majority of music users within a socio-cultural formation.The evidence from music theory, ethnography, archeology, organology, anthropo...

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Main Author: Aleksey eNikolsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01405/full