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Nov 25, 2019 · American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously noted: "Music is the universal language of mankind." That might seem obvious, but no one's actually been able to show how that assumption...
Nov 21, 2019 · Scientists at Harvard have just published the most comprehensive scientific study to date on music as a cultural product, which supports the American poet’s pronouncement and examines what features of song tend to be shared across societies.
Jul 31, 2015 · Music certainly isn’t a universal language in the sense that you could use it to express any thought to any person on the planet. But music does have the power to evoke deep primal...
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Feb 26, 2018 · Human brains seem wired to associate rhythms with movement and hence dance. But to say that music is a universal language because of this is oversimplifying things. The latest research...
Dec 1, 2019 · Music, many might say, is a universal language. To see if that's indeed the case, a team of researchers has performed what they say is the most systematic and comprehensive analysis of the world's music to date.
Apr 1, 2021 · The idea that music might be a universal language reflects an elevation of a particular culture's music (historically concert music of the European Classical tradition) over and above the variety of musical expressions reflected across all of the world's cultures.
Jan 9, 2020 · We’ve all heard the saying, “Where words fail, music speaks” – and now, there’s a study to prove it. New research from Harvard University shows that music carries a set of unique codes and patterns, which are in fact universally understood.
