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Biological Aspects of the Relationships Between Music and Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Nils L. Wallin
Nils L. Wallin*
Affiliation:
Royal Swedish Academy of Music

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Unesco and the International Council of Music have begun work on a musicological project of considerable extent, since it is a universal history of music in ten volumes. At present, the provisional title is Music as a Language of Man: A World History of Music.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 31 , Issue 122 , May 1983 , pp. 1 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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