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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: There is nothing subjective in music reproduction.
Post Subject: Call me a SOB'jectivist....Posted by Thorsten on: 3/9/2006
Roman,

 Romy the Cat wrote:
The theory of harmony, orchestration the evolution of musical instruments, forms and performing techniques and many-many others things, they all based upon the fact that we humans, as the class, have absolutely identical, almost Pavlovian reaction to the identical sonic irritations.


Alas, given that different cultures evolved different musical scales (BTW, did you know that the Orbits of the Plants and their moons closely correspond to notes on the 'primitive' pythagorean scales, but not on the current 'well tempered' scale?), performing techniques and so on.

Compare african or asian music and it's instruments and many are drastically different.

Just listen to some traditional mandingo music (as in not western influenced) music played on the Kora and drums and you get very different scales, harmonies and rythms.

However, I agree on your term "pavlovian", it implies our reaction to sound is neither designed in nore evolved, but strictly learned, therefore pavlovian, but different and strictly subjective. We react to the same stimuli, but our reactions differ.

Ciao T

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