The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

know best,birds and monkeys.The first question is what do animal sounds mean? are they just displays of emotion,or is there more ...

tity,gender,and emotion,is a sadly impoverished vehicle for social com- munication.We must not fall into the trap of assuming th ...

lacking appropriate experiments,we do not know whether these trans- formations involve conscious thought and cognition,with an i ...

innate underpinnings to this behavior.The monkeys behave as though they are innately able to divide up the world of predators in ...

displays.So some animal calls are indeed symbolically meaningful, even though those that are entirely emotionally based probably ...

priately called lexical syntax or lexicoding.The lower level,with mean- ingless sounds combined into sequences,may be termed pho ...

Particular selections and sequences are passed as learned traditions from generation to generation.Constituent notes are all dra ...

Ficken 1985),the individual bird itself recombines the same basic set of call components in many different ways,thus increasing ...

The mistle thrush of Europe engages in similar behavior (Marler 1959), and learned birdsongs provide many other examples. Some o ...

Do Animals Make Music? If it is at all true that phonocoding in animals has some relationship, however remote,to the creation of ...

concentrate on one ingredient of the creative aspect of music,essential for composers,performers,and other makers of music,and f ...

basically the same way,but differently from others.It is easy for experi- enced human observers to identify each animal’s pant-h ...

distinct,more or less discretely different songs.It is true that the indi- vidual distinctiveness of each animal’s pant-hoots an ...

variations grouped around that pattern.The accomplishments of a winter wren are of an altogether different magnitude.Each male h ...

the vocal behavior of birds will prove to be as profitable to study as that of our much closer relatives,monkeys and apes,as we ...

Gyger,M.and Marler,P.(1988).Food calling in the domestic fowl (Gallus gallus):The role of external referents and deception.Anima ...

Marler,P.and Hobbett,L.(1975).Individuality in a long range vocalization of wild chim- panzees.Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie38 ...

Peter J. B. Slater Abstract Song in birds is largely a male preserve, although females may sing also, espe- cially in the tropic ...

transmission of complex sequences of information.By contrast,sound combines a number of features that make it ideal for many for ...

rival repulsion.At the start of the breeding season many male songbirds fight each other for territories.Neighbors also often ha ...