The intention of this paper is to discuss issues involved with ‘music’ as a system of communication; particularly those issues that suggest that music is a type language or that musical symbols can in someway be equated with linguistic symbols. The intention is ultimately to demonstrate that this fixed approach to musicality is flawed in many ways, and that this is demonstrated consistently par...

Neural overlap in processing music and speech, as measured by the co-activation of brain regions in neuroimaging studies, may suggest that parts of the neural circuitries established for language may have been recycled during evolution for musicality, or vice versa that musicality served as a springboard for language emergence. Such a perspective has important implications for several topics of...

Research on characterization and classification of musical compositions have focused on several mathematical and statistical techniques. In this paper, we take a different approach based on music visualization and fractals to investigate the nature of musicality. A musical composition is defined as a sequence of notes and self-similarity plots(SSPs) are constructed on the basis of certain simil...

Recent research has shown that the morphology of certain brain regions may indeed correlate with a number of cognitive skills such as musicality or language ability. The main aim of the present study was to explore the extent to which foreign language aptitude, in particular phonetic coding ability, is influenced by the morphology of Heschl's gyrus (HG; auditory cortex), working memory capacity...

ABSCTRAC This article aims to demonstrate that Glauber Rocha's performance in Barravento (1962) shows an element is little discussed his work, which musicality. The presence of musical instrumentality this title "cinema novo" appears as a dimension orixality. Considering afrodiasporic rituality takes place process black soul corporeality music and dance are established indissoluble solution ban...

CONCEPTIONS OF THE POETIC IN CLASSICAL GREEK PROSE Alison C. Traweek Dr. Sheila Murnaghan This dissertation explores how prose authors of the Classical period envisioned literary distinctions, particularly how and when they labeled a particular utterance ‘poetic’. The first chapter addresses fifth-century prose authors whose work survives in significant degree (Herodotus, Thucydides), or whose ...

This study examines the application of Cognitive Constraint Theory (CCT) to Malay poetic similes. Based on this theory, poetic structures like simile, zeugma and synaesthesia are in fact, governed by certain cognitive principles. These principles or “cognitive constraints”, as they are better known within this approach, ensure the interpretability of the poetic structures on the part of the rea...