What makes music sound so sweet (or not)

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Bericht 21-05-'10, 08:34

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What makes music sound so sweet (or not)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/...00520131431.htm


ScienceDaily (May 20, 2010) — Ever since ancient times, scholars have puzzled over the reasons that some musical note combinations sound so sweet while others are just downright dreadful. The Greeks believed that simple ratios in the string lengths of musical instruments were the key, maintaining that the precise mathematical relationships endowed certain chords with a special, even divine, quality. Twentieth-century composers, on the other hand, have leaned toward the notion that musical tastes are really all in what you are used to hearing
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