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London, UK (The Guardian): Recent research indicates music mimics a composer's native language, explaining why Elgar sounds so English and Debussy sounds so French.
The researchers studied the question because while many classical scores have a distinctly national feel, no one had put forward a good explanation for why that should be. "You would expect songs to sound like they came from the performer's country, but pure music has no words, so why should it?" asks Aniruddh Patel at the NeuroScience Institute in San Diego, California.
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