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The Living Quality of Music

Neurobiologic Patterns of Communicating Feeling

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Music, Mind, and Brain

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This chapter is concerned with the nature of the language of expressive qualities in music. Its three sections consist of (I) Theoretical introduction; (II) Experimental work in the study of dynamic expressive form; (III) Applications to music.

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Clynes, M., Nettheim, N. (1982). The Living Quality of Music. In: Clynes, M. (eds) Music, Mind, and Brain. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8917-0_4

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