Nicolas Slonimsky, “Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns”, 1947 was a musicology science book (“table of contents” of the book are shown in the photocopy below).
The human brain is divided into two hemispheres; and, the left processes “speech”: the right hemisphere processes “singing”.
Nobel laureate “Roger Sperry” was the discoverer of “cerebral hemisphere dominance”. That “music scales” are processed in the right cerebral hemisphere was a discovery; since, the language “Broca” & “Wernicke” (expressive & receptive cortex) areas were earlier known to be in the cerebral “left hemisphere”.
Peter Mark Roget, “Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases”, 1852 is the most linguistics thesaurus. Nicolas Slonimsky, “Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns”, 1947 is the most popular musicology thesaurus.
The combined term “musico-linguistics” denotes study of both “music” & “language”. The brain processes “melody” and “lyrics” in the left & right hemispheres separately in the singers’ head.
The human brain is divided into two hemispheres; and, the left processes “speech”: the right hemisphere processes “singing”.
Nobel laureate “Roger Sperry” was the discoverer of “cerebral hemisphere dominance”. That “music scales” are processed in the right cerebral hemisphere was a discovery; since, the language “Broca” & “Wernicke” (expressive & receptive cortex) areas were earlier known to be in the cerebral “left hemisphere”.
Peter Mark Roget, “Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases”, 1852 is the most linguistics thesaurus. Nicolas Slonimsky, “Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns”, 1947 is the most popular musicology thesaurus.
The combined term “musico-linguistics” denotes study of both “music” & “language”. The brain processes “melody” and “lyrics” in the left & right hemispheres separately in the singers’ head.
Nicolas Slonimsky, “Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns”, 1947 was a musicology science book. Richard Wrangham, “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human“, 2009 was the topic of an earlier blog post. The ability to use your left-brain to “speak”, and your right-brain to “sing” makes us human.
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