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Hi, Victor. I fear I do not have your email, so I'm dropping a comment here. Even if aridly technical, I'm quite sure that you want to take a loot at this new PLoS ONE paper on "musical genetics":
ReplyDeleteAVPR1A and SLC6A4 Polymorphisms in Choral Singers and Non-Musicians: A Gene Association Study.
They found some correlations, and discarded others, in an ethnically homogeneous sample (white British). Not much but you surely want to know.
Hi Maju. Thanks for the reference and the link. I just skimmed the article but am not sure what to make of it. A correlation in itself doesn't mean that much, as it could be due to a wide range of possible factors. It would be more interesting if the sample included singers from several different cultures, especially because a correlation involving people from only a single milieu could easily be due to all sorts of factors not considered by the researchers. I'm also skeptical of any study that is exclusively based on statistical "significance," as this is, as I'm sure you realize, an artificial standard.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, this sort of research is certainly of interest and could lead to something significant, so thanks for keeping me posted.
Nah, just for the record. Also another archaeo-music news I stumbled upon today: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/16/10426123-scientists-revive-sacred-sounds.
ReplyDeleteJust so you know. I can't make much of either but I imagine that you, with your specialist interest, want to know.
As for ethnically homogeneous samples, that's a common vice in all GWAS studies: researchers find easier to scan a homogeneous sample, leaving the possible extension to the rest of the World for future research (which may or not arrive).
Dear Victor,
ReplyDeleteCould you kindly send me your email again as I am away from my desk and do not have access to my address book. I finished reading Sounding the Depths (the paperback)and I'd like to send you some comments.Your findings and conclusions do indeed match mine in ways that are decisive and fundamental. I will put your link on my web page and maybe try and create a blogbook. In any case, bravo and bravo encore. There are of course a number of questions marks, but considering your reconstruction of what you call the HBC/HMC and my own construction of open-aggregated "anarchic" communities, the similarity and even structural identity of both models are overwhelming.
Charles
Dear Victor!
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it's about link music & language genesis
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ReplyDeleteDr. Victor Grauer - the above is my new blogpost overview on the secret of the 1-4-5 music intervals. I link your book. Thanks!