| 词条 | The Ultimate Melody |
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| name = The Ultimate Melody | image = | caption = | author = Arthur C. Clarke | title_orig = | translator = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = Tales from the White Hart | genre = Science fiction | published_in = If | publication_type = Magazine | publisher = Quinn Publications | pub_date = February 1957 | english_pub_date = | preceded_by = Critical Mass | followed_by = The Pacifist | preceded_by_italics = | followed_by_italics = }} "The Ultimate Melody" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1957.[1] The story describes the work of a physiologist who attempts to discover the connections between music and the rhythms of the electrical pulses in the brain. He believed that all "hit-tunes" were merely poor reflections of an "ultimate" melody, and he built a machine to search for this tune. By the end of the story, he succeeds, but the influence of the melody is so powerful that he becomes completely catatonic. The piece was later published as the sixth story in Clarke's collection Tales from the White Hart.[2] References1. ^{{cite web|title=Bibliography: The Ultimate Melody|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?62796|publisher=Internet Speculative Fiction Database|accessdate=11 December 2013}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Clarke|first=Arthur C.|title=Tales from the White Hart|year=1957|publisher=Ballantine Books|location=London|page=Forward}} External links
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