The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

successive rewritings in Chomskian grammar reach basic structures that are not sentences and that imply sentence-production proc ...

that today many specialists of cognitive science speak of tonal music— but they never say “tonal”—as a privileged field for the ...

modularity hypothesis.Fodor (1983) elaborated the diverse traits of such a system,of which the most important are that modules a ...

nonmusicians process melodies in opposite hemispheres.The idea that perception and comprehension of music are based on general m ...

alternations of tensions and relaxations;that is,interaction of the cogni- tive organization of pitch and duration groupings on ...

for the listener.If we want briefly and intuitively to describe the analytic principle proposed by Lerdahl,salience most often c ...

in relation to others.As the piece unfolds,and over successive repeti- tions,certain clues are abandoned and others are reinforc ...

Daniel Stern (1985) developed several interesting concepts that turn out to be related to music.The first is that of vitality af ...

In the language of Stern (1995:86–87) it is the “protonarrative enve- lope.”In effect the narrative form is what,in the universe ...

of its web—seems to characterize Debussy’s universe and shows,as I demonstrated,a denial of time and death in the shape of a ref ...

von Ehrenfels,C.(1890).Über Gestaltqualitäten.Viertel Jahrsschriften für Wissenschaften und Philosophie3:249–299. Fodor,J.(1983) ...

Bruno Nettl Abstract The existence and identification of universals in music have long been a matter of concern to ethnomusicolo ...

notion that all of the world’s musics had anything in common.But by the 1970s all this had changed.A new student arrived in my d ...

European common-practice music;or,continuing my interest in Native Americans as a basis,all music known to the Arapaho no matter ...

peoples think they have music? Certainly not all have a term that trans- lates as “music.”Even European languages do not have al ...

We might be told,“well,they are all music.”They all have about them a certain “musicness”;and perhaps “musicness,”which we canno ...

the world’s societies (as far as we can tell)? What usefulness would this have in establishing universals as guides to learning ...

musical complexity is not easily measured and subject to biases brought about by a culture that worships complexity) as “the wor ...

accompaniments of classical dance in India to rock music.Each feature by itself has a broad distribution in various contexts.Tog ...

But what of the possibility that music actually came into being at dif- ferent times in different places,and developed separatel ...