The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

Having been nothing if not equivocal in the presentation of certain approaches as well as caveats that must accompany them,let m ...

François-Bernard Mâche Abstract The search for universals is no longer linked to the old belief that tonality is based on the la ...

irrelevant when applied to non-Western cultures.Bartók was among the first to realize how improper our notation was in some of t ...

Another fact favoring the search for universals in music is the quick vanishing of traditional music,everywhere replaced by the ...

the same categories to different cultures,and even that the definition of what is the same is always a matter of cultural relati ...

irregular number of basic units,very often grouped by three and by two. This seems to exist also in some animal species.Examples ...

in pitch and duration,as for example when Lanius minor,the lesser grey shrike,imitates a rooster. Clearly,in many cases the synt ...

the excess would have turned not into a disadvantage but an unexpected pleasure. Of course viewing culture as something which or ...

.Music Music. The book ends just as it began.With the sound of a voice.Perhaps it is a lone voice emanating from a weeping islan ...

Whatever those functions are that made music into a human necessity, they are universal.They are felt and understood by all,even ...

Aamodt, S. M., 68 Abu-Lughod, L., 402 Ackley, D. H., 374 Adlesˇicˇ, M., 257 Agnetta, B., 91 Aiello, L. C., 321, 405n Aiello, R., ...

Burford,B., 391 Burley,N., 341 Burns,E.M., 12 Burr,D.B., 221 Buss,D.M., 355 Butler,A.B.,182, 187 Butler,D., 433 Byrne,J.H., 183 ...

487 Author Index Ehret,G., 211 Einwögerer,T., 241 Ekman,P.,89, 438 Elbert,T.,16, 207 Ellefson,J.O., 111 Ellsworth,P., 395 Elowso ...

Hahn,J.,235, 245 Hailman,J.P.,38–39 Haimoff,E.H.,104,110,112, 131 Halliday,T., 341 Halpern,A.R., 13 Hammeal,R.J., 396 Handel,S., ...

489 Author Index Keil,C.,304,307, 440 Keil,F.C., 427 Kemler Nelson,D.G., 431 Kennedy,M.,431, 433 Kerr,G.E., 317 Kessler,E.J., 42 ...

Martini,M., 398 Masataka,N.,437, 440 Masuyama,E.E., 440 Mayer,N.M., 393 McAllester,D.P., 468 McClelland,J.L., 365 McComb,P., 245 ...

491 Author Index Petersen,M.R., 90 Petersen,S.E.,198,200,206,322, 323 Petrie,M., 341 Piaget,J.,173, 174 Piazza,A., 4 Pickert,R., ...

Sismondo,E., 317 Skutch,A.F., 375 Slater,P.J.B.,15,40,50,51,52,53,59,67, 321,322,323,329,345, 373 Slatkin,M., 375 Sloboda,J.A.,2 ...

493 Author Index de Waal,F.B.M.,116,131,156,319,400, 401 Wachsmann,K., 466 Wada,J., 96 Walker,A.C.,224,225,226, 319 Walker,T.J., ...

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