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Hexany

nobody@vox.com(♬ Gene) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:30:18 -0800

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexany

In music theory, the hexany is a six-note just intonation scale, with the notes placed on the vertices of an octahedron, equivalently the faces of a cube. The notes are arranged so that every edge of the octahedron joins together notes that make a consonant dyad, and every face joins together the notes of a consonant triad...

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The possibly musically viable toroidal deltahedron

nobody@vox.com(♬ Gene) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:28:15 -0800

The possibly musically viable toroidal deltahedron

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia...

with 48 triangles

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Your everyday, non-traditional Great Triambic Icosidodecahedron

nobody@vox.com(♬ Gene) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:58:06 -0800

Your everyday, non-traditional Great Triambic Icosidodecahedron

http://dogfeathers.com/icosidodec/top...

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Musical Actions of Dihedral Groups

nobody@vox.com(♬ Gene) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:41:58 -0800

Musical Actions of Dihedral Groups

http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~fiore/1...

Abstract. The sequence of pitches which form a musical melody can be transposed or inverted. Since the 1970s, music theorists have modeled musical transposition and inversion in terms of an action of the dihedral group of order 24. More recently music theorists have found an intriguing second way that the dihedral group of order 24 acts on the set of major and minor triads. We illustrate both geometrically and algebraically how these two actions are dual. Both actions and their duality have been used to analyze works of music as diverse as Hindemith and the Beatles.

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Play That Monkey Music

nobody@vox.com(♬ Gene) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:45:12 -0700

Play That Monkey Music

http://sciencenews.org/view/generic/i...

Science News: Cello music that mimics tamarin calls seems to bring forth the same sort of emotions in the monkeys that the original calls would have elicited, researchers report online September 1 in Biology Letters (http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/09/01/rsbl.2009.0593.abstract).

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Chimps born to appreciate music

nobody@vox.com(♬ Gene) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:46:46 -0700

Chimps born to appreciate music

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_...

BBC: Tasuku Sugimoto and Kazuhide Hashiya of Kyushu University in Hakozaki and colleagues in Japan tested how a young captive chimpanzee named Sakura responded to music as she aged from 17 weeks to 23 weeks old.

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The Music Instinct

nobody@vox.com(♬ Gene) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:14:04 -0700

The Music Instinct

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/musicinstinct/

PBS - Music and Evolution: Music and the Neanderthal’s Communication. Music and Medicine: Music Therapy for Infants. Music and Evolution: Bird Songs. Physics of Sound: Duration of Notes. Performance: World Music Improvisation.

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Eyes-Closed Emotional Music Experience

nobody@vox.com(♬ Gene) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:03:46 -0700

Eyes-Closed Emotional Music Experience

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3...

PLoS ONE: Closing the eyes affects the style of attending to auditory stimuli by modifying the perceptual relationship with the environment without changing the stimulus itself...

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The Smell of Anxiety

nobody@vox.com(♬ Gene) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:57:53 -0700

Induction of Empathy by the Smell of Anxiety

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3...

PLoS ONE - The communication of stress/anxiety between conspecifics through chemosensory signals has been documented in many vertebrates and invertebrates. Here, we investigate how chemosensory anxiety signals conveyed by the sweat of humans (N = 49) awaiting an academic examination are processed by the human brain, as compared to...

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If the cave is rockin' don't bother knockin'

nobody@vox.com(♬ Gene) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:44:15 -0700

Prehistoric Flute

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/a...

BERLIN (AP) — A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a complex and creative culture.

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