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I wish I could remember the author, but several years ago I read a very interesting book on linguistics that cited a study in which parallels were drawn between the spread of Indo-European languages and the repective musical styles which evolved as the cultures diverged. In the study, listeners from populations descended from speakers of proto Indo-European languages were played incomplete musical phrases from supposedly alien cultures and asked to complete the cadences. The specific example that sticks in my head was that people from Ireland could almost invariably complete North Indian phrasing and vice-versa. -t- --- Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net> wrote: > This is way OT, but what's up with that? Sure, > music made by > Europeans may speak to some part of my Euro-mutt > brain, (and music > like Per's sure does) but what does it mean when > this Euro-mutt hears > Indian classical music for the first time and falls > instantly in > love? http://www.myspace.com/nimbletunes http://cdbaby.com/all/timnelson ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222