I just found the soundtrack for my movie

I wrote earlier today about a “Being John Malkovich – Flatliners” mashup dealing with out-of-body experiences and the brain.  Well, if that movie needed a soundtrack, I’d think about using parts of the following radio program.  I know I overuse the word fascinating, but I can’t think of a better description for this.  Kieran Healy from Crooked Timber says:

Just listen to at least the first few minutes of this radio show, which begins with the work of Diana Deutsch, a psychologist who studies the psychology of music. The opening segment demonstrates a remarkable phenomenon, whereby a looped segment of ordinary speech appears—after a few repetitions—to become musical. Moreover, once you’ve perceived it as music, listening to the segment in context makes it sound like the speaker is in a Busby Berkeley musical and has just begun to segue into a solo number. The general musicality of speech is obvious, I suppose, especially when you listen to certain accents, or hear uptalk. But this is a very nice sort of case.

The connection between language and music made me think of how the Koran is recited.  My first exposure was in taxi cabs in Jordan, and I liked the sound of it so much that I would ask drivers who the singer was and if I could get his music.  I thought it was some kind of folk singing at first. 

This isn’t the clearest recording, but here’s the first sura, or chapter, of the Koran to give you a sense of what I’m talking about.  (English translation here.) 

Have sociolinguists and psychologists studied this aspect of Islam?