關於此課程：The course will explore the tone combinations that humans consider consonant or dissonant, the scales we use, and the emotions music elicits, all of which provide a rich set of data for exploring music and auditory aesthetics in a biological framework. Analyses of speech and musical databases are consistent with the idea that the chromatic scale (the set of tones used by humans to create music), consonance and dissonance, worldwide preferences for a few dozen scales from the billions that are possible, and the emotions elicited by music in different cultures all stem from the relative similarity of musical tonalities and the characteristics of voiced (tonal) speech. Like the phenomenology of visual perception, these aspects of auditory perception appear to have arisen from the need to contend with sensory stimuli that are inherently unable to specify their physical sources, leading to the evolution of a common strategy to deal with this fundamental challenge.
製作方： Duke University
教學方： Dale Purves, M.D.
Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
| 語言 | English, 字幕：Spanish |
| 如何通過 | 通過所有計分作業以完成課程。 |
| 用戶評分 |
授課大綱
第 1 週
Course Introduction
Introduction to Music as Biology
1 個視頻, 2 個閱讀材料
- 阅读: A Word About the Course
- 讨论提示: Music as Biology: In Your Own Words
- 阅读: Feedback surveys
Sound Signals, Sound Stimuli, and the Human Auditory System
An overview of the organization of the human auditory system, and how sound signals are transformed into sound stimuli.
4 個視頻, 3 個閱讀材料
- 阅读: Module Resources
- 阅读: An Overview of the Human Auditory System
- 視頻: Sound Signals and Sound Stimuli
- 讨论提示: Distinction Between Sound Signal and Sound Stimuli
- 視頻: Tones versus Noise
- 讨论提示: Harmonic Series
- 視頻: Determining the Sources of Sound Stimuli
- 讨论提示: Auditory Perception
- 阅读: Feedback survey
- 讨论提示: Thinking About Music as Biology: Week 1
已評分: Sound Signals, Sound Stimuli, and the Human Auditory System
第 2 週
The Perception of Sound Stimuli
An introduction to the sound qualities we perceive, and how and why these qualities differ from the information in sound signals.
5 個視頻, 2 個閱讀材料
- 阅读: Module Resources
- 視頻: Pitch and Frequency
- 視頻: Timbre and its Causes
- 讨论提示: Correlates and How They Differ
- 視頻: Observation and Linguistics
- 視頻: Auditory Objects and Scenes
- 讨论提示: Thinking About Music as Biology: Week 2
- 阅读: Feedback survey
已評分: The Perception of Sound Stimuli
第 3 週
Vocalization and Vocal Tones
A discussion of the nature of vocal sound signals, their biological importance and their role in understanding music.
5 個視頻, 2 個閱讀材料
- 阅读: Module Resources
- 讨论提示: Human Vocalization
- 視頻: The Perception of Vocal Sound Signals
- 視頻: The Perception of Intensity (Loudness) in Empirical Terms
- 視頻: The Perception of Frequency (Pitch) in Empirical Terms
- 讨论提示: Share Your Work!
- 視頻: Relationship of Vocalization to Music
- 讨论提示: Thinking About Music as Biology: Week 3
- 阅读: Feedback survey
已評分: Vocalization and Vocal Tones
第 4 週
Defining Music and Exploring Why We Like It
The tonal phenomena that need to be explained in any theory of music, and different approaches that have been take to provide answers.
9 個視頻, 2 個閱讀材料
- 阅读: Module Resources
- 讨论提示: Defining Music
- 視頻: The Chromatic Scale and Some More Musical Terminology
- 讨论提示: Share Your Work!
- 視頻: Consonance and Dissonance
- 視頻: Tonality vs. Atonality: Frequency of Consonant vs. Dissonant Intervals
- 視頻: Tension and Resolution
- 視頻: Cadences
- 讨论提示: Explanations of Consonance
- 視頻: Mathematical Explanations of Consonance
- 視頻: A Physical Explanation of Consonance
- 視頻: A Biological Explanation of Consonance
- 阅读: Feedback survey
已評分: Defining Music and Exploring Why We Like It
第 5 週
Musical Scales
Why a small number of basic scales are used in music worldwide, and how a biological framework explains this and related puzzles.
6 個視頻, 2 個閱讀材料
- 阅读: Module Resources
- 讨论提示: Tuning Systems
- 視頻: The Small Number of Scales Used
- 讨论提示: Scales
- 視頻: Testing a Biological Explanation of Scale Preference
- 讨论提示: Biological Explanation of Scale Preference
- 視頻: Why Is the Number of Intervals in Scales So Limited?
- 視頻: The Status of the Chromatic Scale and the Semitone in Biological Terms
- 視頻: Is Music Uniquely Human?
- 阅读: Feedback survey
已評分: Musical Scales
第 6 週
Music, Emotion, and Cultural Differences
How emotion is conveyed by vocal similarity in music across cultures, and how the speech of a culture and its music are related. A summing up of the major points in the course follows.
7 個視頻, 4 個閱讀材料
- 阅读: Module Resources
- 讨论提示: Relevancy of Emotion
- 視頻: Emotions Elicited by Major versus Minor Scales
- 阅读: Mozart Variation 8, "Minor"
- 阅读: Mozart Variation 9, "Major"
- 視頻: Comparision of Major and Minor Music with Vocalization in Different Emotional States
- 視頻: Expression of Emotion in Eastern and Western Music
- 視頻: Language, Speech, and Cultural Differences in Music
- 視頻: Mbira Music: Background and Cyclical Structures
- 視頻: Mbria Music: Nonhamronic Frequencies
- 讨论提示: Culturally Different Music
- 讨论提示: Your Takeaway
- 讨论提示: Music as Biology: Summing Up
- 阅读: Feedback survey
已評分: Music, Emotion, and Cultural Differences
已評分: Summing Up
Additional Resources
Additional demonstrations and commentaries by Ruby Froom on some of the musical issues considered in the course, as well as a glossary of terms and bibliography for references.
6 個視頻, 16 個閱讀材料
- 阅读: Mozart Theme
- 阅读: Mozart Variation 2, ornamentation
- 阅读: Mozart Variation 5, rhythmic sync
- 阅读: Mozart Variation 8, "Minor"
- 阅读: Mozart Variation 9, "Major"
- 視頻: Derivations of the Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales
- 阅读: Minor Scale Analysis in BWV 002
- 視頻: Cadences
- 阅读: Music Theory Rules
- 阅读: BWV 002 Harmonic Analysis
- 阅读: BWV 65.2 Harmonic Analysis
- 阅读: BWV 133.6 Harmonic Analysis
- 視頻: Berg Lieder
- 阅读: Schliesse Mir Die Augen Beide
- 阅读: Tonal Version Sheet Music
- 阅读: Atonal Version Sheet Music
- 視頻: Background and Cyclical Structure
- 視頻: Nonharmonic Frequencies
- 阅读: Glossary A-O
- 阅读: Glossary P-W
- 阅读: Bibliography
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Duke University
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評分和審閱
Great course. I enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed his previous course "Visual Perception and the Brain".
Really informative and superbly in depth
The content of the course is absolute gold. The course provides some answers (or at least partial answers) to very intriguing questions in music: Why these notes and not others? Why is a minor scale "sad" ? and other related questions. The only real issue is the that the quiz questions are just garbage, so be prepared to be frustrated that after learning some new material and having some real "aha!" moments you will fail the quiz because the questions don't really seem to reflect the important points.
Great.