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there is also a beautiful film about the documetation of this called "gypsy caravan" highly recomended see previews of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqvLcmG8RU0 cheers Luis --- Tim Nelson <psychle62@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 > > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469