Research team develops mathematical model to explain harmony in music

Monday, September 12, 2011 - 10:30 in Mathematics & Economics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bernardo Spagnolo of the University of Palermo in Italy and his Russian colleagues have developed a model that they believe explains why it is we humans hear some notes as harmonious, and others as dissonant. The team, as described in their paper in Physical Review Letters, say that such harmony can be explained by our auditory neural system.

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