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Do Music and Language Obey the Same Rules?
Emre Sevinc writes "Ever felt as though a piece of music is speaking to you? You could be right: musical notes are strung together in the same patterns as words in a piece of literature, according to an Argentinian physicist. This article in Nature states that Damián H. Zanette's analysis also reveals a key difference between tonal compositions, which are written in a particular key, and atonal ones, which are not. This sheds light on why many people find it so hard to make sense of atonal works. In both written text and speech, the frequency with which different words are used follows a striking pattern. In the 1930s, American social scientist George Kingsley Zipf discovered that if he ranked words in literary texts according to the number of times they appeared, a word's rank was roughly proportional to the inverse of the its frequency squared. Herbert Simon later offered an explanation for this mathematical relationship. He argued that as a text progresses, it creates a meaningful context within which words that have been used already are more likely to appear than other, random words. For example, it is more likely that the rest of this article will contain the word 'music' than the word 'sausage'. Physicist Damian Zanette of the Balseiro Institute in Bariloche, Argentina, used this idea to test whether different types of music create a semantic context in a similar fashion."
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Zeikfried - Reuters, Saudi Arabia
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the writer of this article has been listening to "Frampton Comes Alive!" again...
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
for all the links on the net that tell us how google ranks pages... here is the reason/method behind their madness...
What I offer here is an involved yet detached look at Fucky Fuckstick's insinuations. Perhaps time, further study, and more reflection will either modify or enrich the analysis offered here, but Fucky Fuckstick simply wants to win at all costs the war against our individualism and our liberties. I will start this discussion by arguing that Fucky Fuckstick is incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something anal-retentive, backwards, raving, and probably duplicitous. Then, I will present evidence that whatever your age, you now have only one choice. That choice is between a democratic, peace-loving regime that, you hope, may address the continued social injustice shown by vicious wackos and, as the alternative, the Pecksniffian and lackadaisical dirigisme currently being forced upon us by Fucky Fuckstick. Choose carefully, because Fucky Fuckstick evinces a bulldog-like instinct for going after the jugular of his intended victims. Excuse me; that's not entirely correct. What I meant to say is that once you understand Fucky Fuckstick's perceptions, you have a responsibility to do something about them. To know, to understand, and not to act, is an egregious sin of omission. It is the sin of silence. It is the sin of letting Fucky Fuckstick sully a profession that's already held in low esteem. If I didn't think Fucky Fuckstick would up the ante considerably, I wouldn't say that in these days of political correctness and the changing of how history is taught in schools to fulfill a particular agenda, I like to speak of him as "wrongheaded". That's a reasonable term to use, I believe, but let's now try to understand it a little better. For starters, it seems that no one else is telling you that Fucky Fuckstick throws a temper tantrum every time I suggest that there's always been suffering in the world, and wrongs have been and will continue to be committed. So, since the burden lies with me to tell you that, I suppose I should say a few words on the subject. To begin with, Fucky Fuckstick keeps saying that he is a martyr for freedom and a victim of misoneism. Isn't that claim getting a little shopworn? I mean, he says he's going to conjure up dirt against his fellow human beings any day now. Is he out of his mind? The answer is fairly obvious when you consider that his maneuvers are destructive. They're morally destructive, socially destructive -- even intellectually destructive. And, as if that weren't enough, he wants all of us to believe that people don't mind having their communities turned into war zones. That's why he sponsors brainwashing in the schools, brainwashing by the government, brainwashing statements made to us by politicians, entertainers, and sports stars, and brainwashing by the big advertisers and the news media. I guess that my take on this is that I, hardheaded cynic that I am, am doubtlessly not up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say that Fucky Fuckstick keeps trying to condone universal oppression. And if we don't remain eternally vigilant, he will definitely succeed. No one that I speak with or correspond with is happy about this situation. Of course, I don't speak or correspond with pompous usurers, Fucky Fuckstick's myrmidons, or anyone else who fails to realize that Fucky Fuckstick's values have merged with deconstructionism in several interesting ways. Both spring from the same kind of reality-denying mentality. Both displace meaningful discussion of an issue's merit or demerit with hunch and emotion. And both con us into believing that his vices are the only true virtues. How can Fucky Fuckstick live with himself, knowing that nepotism is, at its core, a choleric system that seeks
Heisenberg et al answer, "No."
The young musician then says, "D-minor, of course" to answer his own question. He says it in German, so "minor" becomes "moll."
Intrigued, Heisenberg asks, "Why?"
"Because they D-moll-ished the walls!"