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Name: How Music Makes Sense
ID: m12953
Language: English (en)
Summary: Music relies primarily on repetition to help it make sense to the listener. In popular music and children's songs, the repetition is often very literal and direct, making the music more immediately accessible. In art-music, the repetition is often varied and transformed. This makes the repetition flexible, capable of assuming of many forms and moods.
Subject: Arts
Keywords: music, music theory
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)
Authors: Anthony Brandt (abrandt@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Anthony Brandt (abrandt@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Anthony Brandt (abrandt@rice.edu), Elizabeth Gregory (elizabeth.gregory@gmail.com)
Version: 1.22 (history)
Created: Jul 5, 2005 8:55 am GMT-5
Revised: Jan 16, 2008 8:06 am US/Central

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Version: 1.22 Jan 16, 2008 8:06 am US/Central by Anthony Brandt
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Changed "art-music" to "classical music"
Version: 1.21 Jan 11, 2007 10:46 am US/Central by Elizabeth Gregory
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Added a Supplemental Link.
Version: 1.20 Jan 6, 2007 7:50 am US/Central by Anthony Brandt
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modified one sentence
Version: 1.19 Jan 6, 2007 7:45 am US/Central by Anthony Brandt
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changed a few words
Version: 1.18 Jan 5, 2007 11:53 pm US/Central by Anthony Brandt
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made a few revisions
Version: 1.17 Jan 5, 2007 11:39 pm US/Central by Anthony Brandt
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deleted two paragraphs and changed the word order in one phrase
Version: 1.16 Jan 5, 2007 11:30 am US/Central by Elizabeth Gregory
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Added a note on flash.
Version: 1.15 Sep 19, 2006 5:23 pm GMT-5 by Anthony Brandt
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changed one word
Version: 1.14 Sep 9, 2006 3:31 pm GMT-5 by Anthony Brandt
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Made a few revisions
Version: 1.13 Sep 9, 2006 3:13 pm GMT-5 by Anthony Brandt
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fixed typo
Version: 1.12 Jul 13, 2006 10:25 am GMT-5 by Elizabeth Gregory
Changes: 
 In example 13, changed "etude" to "prelude".
Version: 1.11 Jun 15, 2006 9:43 pm GMT-5 by Anthony Brandt
Changes: 
 Made some significant revisions
Version: 1.10 Jun 10, 2006 4:18 pm GMT-5 by Anthony Brandt
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 made some small corrections
Version: 1.9 Aug 8, 2005 9:45 am GMT-5 by Elizabeth Gregory
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Changed the abstract.
Version: 1.8 Aug 6, 2005 6:48 am GMT-5 by Anthony Brandt
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 one more small change
Version: 1.7 Aug 6, 2005 6:44 am GMT-5 by Anthony Brandt
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 more small edits
Version: 1.6 Aug 6, 2005 6:35 am GMT-5 by Anthony Brandt
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 small revision
Version: 1.5 Aug 6, 2005 6:33 am GMT-5 by Anthony Brandt
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 fixed a few sentences
Version: 1.4 Aug 4, 2005 6:15 pm GMT-5 by Anthony Brandt
Changes: 
 Revised a few sentences
Version: 1.3 Aug 4, 2005 6:13 pm GMT-5 by Anthony Brandt
Changes: 
 Added a baseball quotation to one paragraph
Version: 1.2 Aug 2, 2005 10:53 am GMT-5 by Elizabeth Gregory
Changes: 
Added a folk music example.  Also, one small correction: There was an article in the NY Science
Times today.  Almost all of the cells in our body are replenished, but
not those of the brain, heart and eye.   To finesse that point, changed "personal identities" to "physical identities," since
"personal" implies mental aspects and the brain cells are stable.
Version: 1.1 Aug 1, 2005 1:38 pm GMT-5 by Elizabeth Gregory
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