I've just had the misfortune of reading yet another smug, somewhat revered book "explaining" music, this time with all the same problems as most of the others.
It tricked me with its title: 'Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination'.
Some choice excerpts:
"Composers working with [non-Western] scales must labor harder to devise deep musical relations, their melodies will prosper more by contour than harmony, and ultimately…
Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
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Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/6…
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Michael Haydn, Filippo Bogdanovic, Roberto Piga, Arianna Menesini, Alberto-do, Genova Vocal Ensemble & Roberta Paraninfo:
🎵 Missa Sancti Aloysii, MH 257 (excerpt)
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