When do our brains stop/start perceiving something as music?

Question

For example, if I played a song really, really slowly. Say, one note per hour, I doubt people would be able to recognize it as music and have the same chemical, physical, and emotional response than if it were played “normally”. When does music become just sound and vice versa?

**Have there been any experiments on how slow music can be before we stop “feeling” the music?**

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Answer 1

There’s a psychologist, Diana Deutsch, who studies this. You can read her papers, also she was featured on a [segment of Radiolab](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91512-musical-language) that explained her research to mass audiences.