In a word, musical harmony is a psychological science." He adds that this
science is very far from being constituted yet; we have hardly even
obtained a glimpse of it.
[99] _American Journal of Psychology_, April, 1898.
[100] _American Journal of Psychology_, November, 1887. The influence of
rhythm on the involuntary muscular system is indicated by the occasional
effect of music in producing a tendency to contraction of the bladder.
[101] _Archiv fuer Anatomie und Physiologie_ (Physiologisches Abtheilung),
1880, p. 420.
[102] M.L. Patrizi, "Primi esperimenti intorno all' influenza della musica
sulla circolozione del sangue nel cervello umano," _International Congress
fuer Psychologie_, Munich, 1897, p. 176.
[103] _Philosophische Studien_, vol. xi.
[104] Binet and Courtier, "La Vie Emotionelle," _Annee Psychologique_,
Third Year, 1897, pp. 104-125.
[105] Guibaud, _Contribution a l'etude experimentale de l'influence de la
musique sur la circulation et la respiration_. These de Bordeaux, 1898,
summarized in _Annee Psychologique_, Fifth Year, 1899, pp. 645-649.
[106] _International Congress of Physiology_, Berne, 1895.
[107] The influence of association plays no necessary part in these
pleasurable influences, for Fere's experiments show that an unmusical
subject responds physiologically, with much precision, to musical
intervals he is unable to recognize.
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