The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

rather than constructed using difficult-to-determine musical rules. Baluja,Pomerleau,and Jochem (1994),for instance,working in t ...

strosity containing thirty-five notes of minuscule duration (mostly triplets) jumping over three octaves.The authors noted (1995 ...

as many as thirty-five different displays in a wide range of combinations and sequences (Hanlon and Messenger 1996). Traditional ...

splitting up the original population into subpopulations of individuals with distinct traits and preferences (see Todd and Mille ...

Coevolving Hopeful Singers and Music Critics To simulate the coevolution of music producers and critics who exert selective pres ...

expected that particular transition and adding it to the running total score for the song.Thus,songs that contain more of the in ...

surprise the female experienced and therefore how much she preferred that song.No surprise,we call this the surprise preference ...

We further compared cases where female expectation-transition tables were fixed across time (i.e.,female offspring contain exact ...

Using this technique,we compared the rate of change of population modal songs over time for our six conditions.Surprise scoring ...

which is one of the slowest cases,by plotting their progress charts.Figure 20.1 shows modal song change for a coevolving surpris ...

with highly converged, low-diversity populations having histograms skewed toward low values,and unconverged,high-diversity popul ...

selection effects of surprise preferences can lead new song “species” to emerge and differentiate from each other over time.This ...

This diversity could actually be increased if female song preferences could change faster,altering within any given female’s lif ...

create note transition expectations,rather than evolving them,will allow the population to change its tune even more rapidly tha ...

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Ellen Dissanayake Abstract Speculations about the biological origins of music, like other human social behav- iors, typically as ...

concept provides a new and promising approach to the longstanding mystery of music’s origin and evolutionary purpose. I do not r ...

ations in frequency,intensity,duration,and temporal or spatial pattern- ing of sounds (Papousˇek and Papousˇek 1981:171);that is ...