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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/music-as-biology
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课程名称：音乐与生物学：我们喜欢听什么以及为什么 课程概述：本课程将探讨人类认为和谐或不和谐的音调组合、我们使用的音阶以及音乐所引发的情感。这些内容为在生物学框架下探索音乐与听觉美学提供了丰富的数据。对语音和音乐数据库的分析支持这样的观点：色阶（人类创造音乐所使用的音调集合）、和谐与不和谐、全球对几十种音阶的偏好（尽管存在数十亿种可能性）以及不同文化中音乐激发的情感，都是由于音乐音调的相对相似性和有声（音调）语音的特征而产生的。像视觉感知的现象学一样，这些听觉感知的特点似乎源于应对固有无法明确物理来源的感官刺激的需要，进而演化出应对这一根本挑战的共同策略。 课程大纲： 1. **声音信号、声音刺激与人类听觉系统** - 介绍人类听觉系统的组织，以及声音信号如何转变为声音刺激。 2. **声音刺激的感知** - 介绍我们感知的声音特质，以及这些特质为何与声音信号中的信息存在差异。 3. **发声与声调** - 讨论声响信号的性质、生物重要性及其在理解音乐中的作用。 4. **定义音乐及探索我们为何喜欢音乐** - 需要在任何音乐理论中解释的音调现象，以及为提供答案而采取的不同方法。 5. **音乐音阶** - 探讨为何全球音乐中使用少数基本音阶，以及如何通过生物学框架解释这个及相关难题。 6. **附加资源** - Ruby Froom 针对课程中讨论的一些音乐问题提供的额外示范与评论，以及术语词汇表和参考书目。
Part: 1
Title:Sound Signals, Sound Stimuli, and the Human Auditory System
Description:An overview of the organization of the human auditory system, and how sound signals are transformed into sound stimuli.
Part: 2
Title:The Perception of Sound Stimuli
Description:An introduction to the sound qualities we perceive, and how and why these qualities differ from the information in sound signals.
Part: 3
Title:Vocalization and Vocal Tones
Description:A discussion of the nature of vocal sound signals, their biological importance and their role in understanding music.
Part: 4
Title:Defining Music and Exploring Why We Like It
Description:The tonal phenomena that need to be explained in any theory of music, and different approaches that have been take to provide answers.
Part: 5
Title:Musical Scales
Description:Why a small number of basic scales are used in music worldwide, and how a biological framework explains this and related puzzles.
Part: 6
Title:Additional Resources
Description: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.
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.
