[music-dsp] Re: emotional perception of unknown (abstract) sound

[eli+ at gs211.sp.cs.cmu.edu]

Paul Kellett wrote:
> I remember seeing something about a set of pitch contours that were
> interepreted as the same emotions by people from different cultures, 
> suggesting they were the "animal calls" of early humans. I will try
> to find it again.

Manfred Clynes has written about this sort of thing.  Not that I buy
everything he says, but...

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