The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
given above is not ‘the music’; it was a recording of the sound of a musical activity in a particular cultural context. To exper ...
significance, and to its inefficacy. Putting these four premises together yields the following operational definition: Musics ca ...
linguistic capacities earlier than phonetic elements’. He sees (pp. 46–47) infant and early childhood musical behaviours as form ...
evidenced by the results of Trehub and others, suggesting that sensitivities to harmonicity of tonal relations and to melodic co ...
towards individual hedonism, a notion quite untenable before the advent of recording technology. Indeed, over the last 100 years ...
formation and maintenance ofgroup identity, for the conduct ofcollective thinking(as in the transmission of group history and pl ...
example; the arc of a ball thrown through the air, the prosodic contour of a comforting utterance, the trajectory of a swallow a ...
it seems to capture the interlinking of sound and action that characterizes music for most cultures—the functions that music ful ...
To return to the beginning; what are the implications for this view of music as something more than patterned sound, for an unde ...
12.Slobin, M.(1993) Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West. Hanover: Weslyan University Press. 13.Malm, M.(1977) Music Cult ...
36.Sperber, D.(1996) Explaining Culture. Oxford: Blackwell. 37.Miller, G. F.(1997) Protean primates: the evolution of adaptive u ...
5 IS MUSIC AN EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION? Abstract In contemplating the function and origin of music, a number ...
favoured individuals who exhibited certain altruistic traits. Evolution does not dictate our behaviour: it selects which behavio ...
accounts, my own theory will draw on existing knowledge, and so be post hocin character. As long as this account remains post ho ...
pattern. Large quantities of alcohol became possible only with the advent of agriculture. Modern European and Asian descendents ...
Some evolutionary theories of music Of the various proposals concerning a possible evolutionary origin for music, eight broad th ...
escalating competition for ever more elaborate and beautiful melodies. Miller^17 has suggested that sexual selection accounts fo ...
43,000 and 82,000 years old, using electron spin dating. The instrument was fashioned from the femur of the now-extinct European ...
even a human artifact. In short, it may be that music making is not just ubiquitous among Homo sapiens; music making may possibl ...
and you’re still sleeping”, they [shout] as loudly as they [can].... Sometimes the harass- ment [is] personal as the singers [ye ...
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