“By contrast, the three other features—conjunct melodic motion, limited macroharmony, and centricity—are common to virtually all human music. This near universality may be attributable, at least in part, to features of our biological inheritance.10” — Dmitri Tymoczko Copy Share Image
“Of these five features, harmonic consistency is clearly the most culturally specific. The idea that music should consist of rapidly changing chords is a deeply Western idea, in a double sense: it is deep, insofar as it characterizes much Western… — Dmitri Tymoczko Copy Share Image
“Finally, we often hear some pitches or notes as being more important (or “central”) than others. These pitches tend to serve as points of… — Dmitri Tymoczko Copy Share Image
“By contrast, the three other features—conjunct melodic motion, limited macroharmony, and centricity—are common to virtually all human music. This near universality may be attributable,… — Dmitri Tymoczko Copy Share Image
“Of these five features, harmonic consistency is clearly the most culturally specific. The idea that music should consist of rapidly changing chords is a… — Dmitri Tymoczko Copy Share Image
