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Musical consonance: a review of theory and evidence on perception and preference of auditory roughness in humans and other animals
John M. McBride
The origins of consonance in human music has long been contested, and today there are three primary hypotheses: aversion to roughness, preference for harmonicity, and learned prefe…
physics.soc-ph2021★ 2 cited
Convergent evolution in a large cross-cultural database of musical scales
John M McBride, Sam Passmore, Tsvi Tlusty
Scales, sets of discrete pitches that form the basis of melodies, are thought to be one of the most universal hallmarks of music. But we know relatively little about cross-cultural…