Re: sensory consonance /dissonance' musical consonance / d issonance

[Martin Braun <nombraun@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Kevin and others,

to learn something is not the biological purpose of a human brain. It's 
purpose is to keep up a workable equilibrium. If acoustical signals, such as 
music by Webern, can be of use for a brain depends on numerous things.

Neither in music nor in psychoacoustics can there be something like absolute 
consonance or absolute dissonance. It's always relative to something else.

The idea that consonance can be learned, and that dissonance can be 
unlearned, has been a popular one in some circles for quite some time. In my 
view this idea is just one of the many "false beginnings" that have cropped 
up during the course of human culture.

Martin

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