The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

semantics of music as it appears in humans.Birds,whales,and cicadas “sing”and “signal,”but they do not manifest the richness of ...

indeed produce music.It is inevitable that musical experience involves the motor cortex,basal ganglia,and cerebellum in producin ...

the cortices.These individualized patterns lacked invariance with respect to the stimuli that triggered them (Freeman 1992).They ...

be sure that any other mind exists,or,for that matter,the world? How can knowledge be based on the experience of each individual ...

that draws one voice from two strings. On what instrument are we strung? And which violinist has us in hand? O sweet song.[My tr ...

plexity steeped in chaos,but is constrained by the physical medium in which the work is done and by the discipline of the Academ ...

induced by ingestion of mushroom hallucinogens,which preceded LSD, and are now gained by Prozac,which blocks endogenous serotoni ...

evangelistic churches in congregations from the seventeenth century to the present,in which the avowed goal was religious conver ...

and that immersion in dance is followed by a refreshed sense of belong- ing to the tribe.What is at issue is the extent to which ...

about techniques for working matter into useful forms must have required existence of channels to support social interactions.Th ...

With the emergence of city states run by bureaucrats and academic intelligentsia,the Greeks relegated the Dionysian orgies to th ...

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Sandra Trehub Abstract The chapter considers the possibility of human predispositions for processing music,and speculates about ...

Studying human infants provides an opportunity to explore the possi- bility of such processing predispositions.If substantial ad ...

intervals) maintained,they treat the transposition as equivalent to the original melody (Chang and Trehub 1977;Trehub,Bull,and T ...

result,infants can detect contour changes even when comparison pat- terns are presented at different pitch levels than the origi ...

Jusczyk and Krumhansl 1993).On the basis of these findings,one can tentatively propose three processing universals:the priority ...