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A quick comment. Seems like success in relating any kind of musical
event to gravity depends on the answers to a couple of questions.
First, whether descending intervals, stepwise lines, root
progressions, etc., generally always create a sense of closure or at
least a lessening of tension; and if so, are these style and culture
independent? Second, if so, could there be other explanations for
this phenomenon? Third, if some sort of relationship could be
established between the physical law and gravity, what effect, if
any, will Einstein's general theory of relativity have on musical
perception, now or in some future time? Finally, is the concept of
"up and down" in music universal and innate, or is it something we
have learned by association?<br>
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(For the record, my personal thinking is that the musical brain has
learned to associate higher and lower pitches with up and down in
space. Maybe because low sounds are associated with heavier objects,
which seem to be tending downward more seriously than lighter
objects (although they accelerate at the same rate when falling.))<br>
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Christopher Bonds<br>
Wayne State College (retired)<br>
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