The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

Beebe and Gerstman (1984) chose as the unit of maternal behavior the one and a half to three-second repetitive run of kinesic pa ...

mother may then modulate her behaviors to influence the infant’s level of arousal according to her perception of its current sta ...

Musical Features of Mother-Infant Interactions We can,I believe with good reason,claim that mother-infant interactions are compo ...

demonstrated by Turner (1985) and Pöppel (1985) to characterize uni- versally lines of verse,and that Lynch et al.(1995) found t ...

rich polyphony upon a polyrhythmic continuum in an “infinite sound”of “chaotic unity”(Meurant 1995:180). Disruption and repair c ...

ments of adults indicates an innate capacity for recognizing and acting on certain isomorphisms (abstract,intermodal representat ...

Fewer than a score of studies have looked specifically or closely at early interaction in other cultures,specifying sequences an ...

individual well-being (or competitive selective advantage), musical aspects of mother-infant engagement suggest a different infe ...

attributes,acquiring new communicative meaning as social signals.More recently,Eibl-Eibesfeldt (1989:439–440) outlined general c ...

is a feature of lovemaking in humans (Stern 1977),as it is in copulation in bonobos (de Waal 1989).In humans,love songs and cour ...

little attention to material objects but have dances with versification; older men play gongs of different sizes in an “orchestr ...

sounds (Papousˇek,Papousˇek,and Harris 1987);between four and six months they produce more substantial vowellike sounds,bilabial ...

The readiness of children to imitate adults and each other is of course well known as an attribute of sociability and,ultimately ...

attunement described in this chapter.Not only in the remote past,but even today in soci- eties that experience scarcity,mothers ...

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Walter Freeman Abstract Music is regarded in biological terms as originating in the brain, so that most explanations concentrate ...