"Music is far, far older than our species. It is tens of
millions of years old, and the fact that animals as wildly
divergent as whales, humans and birds come out with similar
laws for what they compose suggests to me that there are a
finite number of musical sounds that will entertain the
vertebrate brain."
- ROGER PAYNE, on the origins of music.
Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/09/science/09MUSI.html
Luisa Del Giudice, Director
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