The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

social context,presumably through further development of the preex- isting ability to recombine vocal elements into new patterns ...

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Katharine Payne Abstract Male humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangeliae) sing long, complex songs in tropical waters during the b ...

and dominance hierarchies,aspects of male competition during the season of courtship (Tyack 1981;Darling 1983).It seems likely t ...

137 The Changing Songs of Humpback Whales Figur e 9.1 Diagram of hierarchical structure of all humpback whale songs ,using a tra ...

cacophony that New Zealand whale listeners refer to as the barnyard chorus.When we separated out the various voices in such a ch ...

second subphrase we see an increasing number of grunts over time.As the result of these processes,the whole phrase grew progress ...

140 Katharine Payne Figur e 9.2 Tracings of spectrograms of representative songs from March 1977 and 1978. W e selected songs th ...

141 The Changing Songs of Humpback Whales Figur e 9.2 Continued . Fig .9.2(Cont.) B ...

(other than of the intensity of the singing itself) does not coincide with natural cycles that affect other aspects of whales’ b ...

143 The Changing Songs of Humpback Whales Figure 9.4 Some changing parameters of theme five over two singing seasons.Each bar re ...

we found that each identified singer had changed his song about as much and in about the same ways as all the other singers in t ...

145 The Changing Songs of Humpback Whales Figure 9.6 Percentage of r and j units per song session versus time.The time periods ( ...

I suggest that the innovation leading to song changing in whales may be driven by sexual selection.Geoffrey Miller (this volume) ...

conscious decisions.It has nothing to do with the meaning of words, phrases,or sentences being uttered. Drift in whale song proc ...

148 Katharine Payne Figur e 9.9 Tracings of spectrograms of rhymelike subphrases . A: Phrases in two or more adjacent themes con ...

Figure 9.10 Scattergrams show single linear correlations for combined Atlantic and Pacific samples. Rhymelike subphrases are mos ...

of intentions as they compose and sing,and how they experience their own and other whales’ songs.In deep water,when the sea is c ...

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