Why Did We Evolve To Like Harmony?

Sign up for ToneGym: https://tonegym.co/?aff=2104 🎵 Check out my previous video on Temperament:    • Why pianos and guitars aren’t really in tu...   Why do we even like the sound of harmony? Why would humanity have evolved to be sensitive to not just the sound of pitch, but the sound of different pitches interacting? Did it somehow provide a survival benefit that evolution then selected for? Or is our love of musical harmony simply a by-product of how our minds evolved to perceive language? SOURCES: D. Deutsch, The Psychology Of Music (1982) S. Pinker, How the Mind Works (1997) D. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music (2006) D. Rothenberg, Survival of the Beautiful (2011)    • Why you DON'T want Perfect Pitch      • The most mind-blowing concept in music (Ha...   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1262593/ https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1989-1...    • Daniel Levitin on auditory cheesecake and ...      • 13. Inharmonicity and Octave Stretching   https://harmonic.netlify.app/ https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.co... https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1987-0... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...    • How To Play Notes That Aren't There   https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...    • Are BINAURAL BEATS real? | Q+A      • 11. The Missing Fundamental     / 2020-speech-generation-1-quasi-periodic-wa...      • Why Do Some Harmonies Sound Prettier Than ...   https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases... https://deutsch.ucsd.edu/pdf/Sci_Am-2...    • When We First Talked   The outro music to this video is my track "Here, Here" which you can hear in full on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wKKJ... 🎶 And, an extra special thanks goes to Chase Heeler, Peter Keller, Douglas Lind, Vidad Flowers, Ivan Pang, Waylon Fairbanks, Jon Dye, Austin Russell, Christopher Ryan, Toot & Paul Peijzel, the channel’s Patreon saints! 😇 SUPPORT ME ON PATREON:   / davidbennettpiano   🎹 0:00 Introduction 0:59 Why are humans sensitive to pitch? 4:33 The Harmonic Series 8:34 Binaural Beats 10:30 ToneGym 11:07 Combination Tones 13:16 Why do we like the sound of harmony? 15:30 Temperament 17:56 Outro