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The Origins of Music

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Author : Nils L. Wallin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262731436
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Music written by Nils L. Wallin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-07-27 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology. What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the universal features of music and musical behavior across cultures? In this groundbreaking book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, ethologists, and linguists come together for the first time to examine these and related issues. The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology—the study of which will contribute greatly to our understanding of the evolutionary precursors of human music, the evolution of the hominid vocal tract, localization of brain function, the structure of acoustic-communication signals, symbolic gesture, emotional manipulation through sound, self-expression, creativity, the human affinity for the spiritual, and the human attachment to music itself. Contributors Simha Arom, Derek Bickerton, Steven Brown, Ellen Dissanayake, Dean Falk, David W. Frayer, Walter Freeman, Thomas Geissmann, Marc D. Hauser, Michel Imberty, Harry Jerison, Drago Kunej, François-Bernard Mâche, Peter Marler, Björn Merker, Geoffrey Miller, Jean Molino, Bruno Nettl, Chris Nicolay, Katharine Payne, Bruce Richman, Peter J.B. Slater, Peter Todd, Sandra Trehub, Ivan Turk, Maria Ujhelyi, Nils L. Wallin, Carol Whaling

Music origins and biomusicology

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Author : Julián Monge-Nájera
Publisher : EUNED
ISBN 13 : 9789977649917
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Music origins and biomusicology written by Julián Monge-Nájera and published by EUNED. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Origins of Music

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Author : Nils L. Wallin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262731430
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Music written by Nils L. Wallin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-07-27 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology. What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the universal features of music and musical behavior across cultures? In this groundbreaking book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, ethologists, and linguists come together for the first time to examine these and related issues. The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology—the study of which will contribute greatly to our understanding of the evolutionary precursors of human music, the evolution of the hominid vocal tract, localization of brain function, the structure of acoustic-communication signals, symbolic gesture, emotional manipulation through sound, self-expression, creativity, the human affinity for the spiritual, and the human attachment to music itself. Contributors Simha Arom, Derek Bickerton, Steven Brown, Ellen Dissanayake, Dean Falk, David W. Frayer, Walter Freeman, Thomas Geissmann, Marc D. Hauser, Michel Imberty, Harry Jerison, Drago Kunej, François-Bernard Mâche, Peter Marler, Björn Merker, Geoffrey Miller, Jean Molino, Bruno Nettl, Chris Nicolay, Katharine Payne, Bruce Richman, Peter J.B. Slater, Peter Todd, Sandra Trehub, Ivan Turk, Maria Ujhelyi, Nils L. Wallin, Carol Whaling

Biomusicology

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Author : Nils Lennart Wallin
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945193203
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Biomusicology written by Nils Lennart Wallin and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wallin's discourse encompasses: 1) the musical consequences of cerebral functional asymmetry; 2) the hierarchic and selective organization of perceptual-cognitive auditory processes; 3) reticular-limbic responses to musical stimuli interpreted as synapse-modifying mechanisms for long-term motivation and learning, as well as for phylogenetical "learning"; 4) the question of remnants or retentions with roots in the sound-gestures of other vertebrates of a higher order (and not solely the non-human primates) being active in the innermost structure of music; 5) vocalization techniques, e.g., the "kolning" technique of the late Paleolithic herding culture of Europe, as paleobiological retention; 6) the epistemological perspective of models of life-processes as discussed in recent scientific research."--BOOK JACKET.

Biomusicology

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Author : Nils L. Wallin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789185428670
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Biomusicology written by Nils L. Wallin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Origins of Musicality

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Author : Henkjan Honing
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262538512
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Musicality written by Henkjan Honing and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves “unmusical.” This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Scholars from biology, musicology, neurology, genetics, computer science, anthropology, psychology, and other fields consider what music is for and why every human culture has it; whether musicality is a uniquely human capacity; and what biological and cognitive mechanisms underlie it. Contributors outline a research program in musicality, and discuss issues in studying the evolution of music; consider principles, constraints, and theories of origins; review musicality from cross-cultural, cross-species, and cross-domain perspectives; discuss the computational modeling of animal song and creativity; and offer a historical context for the study of musicality. The volume aims to identify the basic neurocognitive mechanisms that constitute musicality (and effective ways to study these in human and nonhuman animals) and to develop a method for analyzing musical phenotypes that point to the biological basis of musicality. Contributors Jorge L. Armony, Judith Becker, Simon E. Fisher, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Bruno Gingras, Jessica Grahn, Yuko Hattori, Marisa Hoeschele, Henkjan Honing, David Huron, Dieuwke Hupkes, Yukiko Kikuchi, Julia Kursell, Marie-Élaine Lagrois, Hugo Merchant, Björn Merker, Iain Morley, Aniruddh D. Patel, Isabelle Peretz, Martin Rohrmeier, Constance Scharff, Carel ten Cate, Laurel J. Trainor, Sandra E. Trehub, Peter Tyack, Dominique Vuvan, Geraint Wiggins, Willem Zuidema

Music, Language, and Human Evolution

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Author : Nicholas Bannan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199227349
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Music, Language, and Human Evolution written by Nicholas Bannan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accompanying DVD provides some glimpses of the practice of music in a variety of cultures and illustrates ways of listening to the human voice that reveal its intrinsic musicality. The DVD was edited by Pedro Espi-Sanchis, who recorded further material in South Africa.

The Origin of Music

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Author : Robert Fink
Publisher : Robert Martin Fink
ISBN 13 : 9780912424095
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Music written by Robert Fink and published by Robert Martin Fink. This book was released on 1985 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a collection of articles related to the origin of music, presented by Greenwich. Links to a midi file of "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by the German composer Richard Georg Strauss (1864-1949), which reflects the developments of musical scales.

The Singing Neanderthals

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Author : Steven J. Mithen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674021921
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book The Singing Neanderthals written by Steven J. Mithen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of our language instinct. Steven Mithen draws on a huge range of sources, from neurological case studies, through child psychology and the communication systems of non-human primates to the latest paleoarchaeological evidence.

Animals and Their People

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Author : Anna Barcz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900438622X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Animals and Their People written by Anna Barcz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals and Their People: Connecting East and West in Cultural Animal Studies, edited by Anna Barcz and Dorota Łagodzka, provides a zoocentric insight into philosophical, artistic, and literary problems in Western, Anglo-American, and Central-Eastern European context. The contributors go beyond treating humans as the sole object of research and comprehension, and focus primarily on non-human animals. This book results from intellectual exchange between Polish and foreign researchers and highlights cultural perspective as an exciting language of animal representation. Animals and Their People aims to bridge the gap between Anglo-American and Central European human-animal studies.

A History of Music

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Author : William Cooke Stafford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A History of Music written by William Cooke Stafford and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Music. (Art and Science)

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Author : William Chappell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The History of Music. (Art and Science) written by William Chappell and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Language, Music, and the Brain

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Author : Michael A. Arbib
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262018101
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Language, Music, and the Brain written by Michael A. Arbib and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A presentation of music and language within an integrative, embodied perspective of brain mechanisms for action, emotion, and social coordination. This book explores the relationships between language, music, and the brain by pursuing four key themes and the crosstalk among them: song and dance as a bridge between music and language; multiple levels of structure from brain to behavior to culture; the semantics of internal and external worlds and the role of emotion; and the evolution and development of language. The book offers specially commissioned expositions of current research accessible both to experts across disciplines and to non-experts. These chapters provide the background for reports by groups of specialists that chart current controversies and future directions of research on each theme. The book looks beyond mere auditory experience, probing the embodiment that links speech to gesture and music to dance. The study of the brains of monkeys and songbirds illuminates hypotheses on the evolution of brain mechanisms that support music and language, while the study of infants calibrates the developmental timetable of their capacities. The result is a unique book that will interest any reader seeking to learn more about language or music and will appeal especially to readers intrigued by the relationships of language and music with each other and with the brain. Contributors Francisco Aboitiz, Michael A. Arbib, Annabel J. Cohen, Ian Cross, Peter Ford Dominey, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Leonardo Fogassi, Jonathan Fritz, Thomas Fritz, Peter Hagoort, John Halle, Henkjan Honing, Atsushi Iriki, Petr Janata, Erich Jarvis, Stefan Koelsch, Gina Kuperberg, D. Robert Ladd, Fred Lerdahl, Stephen C. Levinson, Jerome Lewis, Katja Liebal, Jônatas Manzolli, Bjorn Merker, Lawrence M. Parsons, Aniruddh D. Patel, Isabelle Peretz, David Poeppel, Josef P. Rauschecker, Nikki Rickard, Klaus Scherer, Gottfried Schlaug, Uwe Seifert, Mark Steedman, Dietrich Stout, Francesca Stregapede, Sharon Thompson-Schill, Laurel Trainor, Sandra E. Trehub, Paul Verschure

The Evolving Animal Orchestra

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Author : Henkjan Honing
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262351161
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Evolving Animal Orchestra written by Henkjan Honing and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A music researcher's quest to discover other musical species. Even those of us who can't play a musical instrument or lack a sense of rhythm can perceive and enjoy music. Research shows that all humans possess the trait of musicality. We are a musical species—but are we the only musical species? Is our musical predisposition unique, like our linguistic ability? In The Evolving Animal Orchestra, Henkjan Honing embarks upon a quest to discover if humans share the trait of musicality with other animals. Charles Darwin believed that musicality was a capacity of all animals, human and nonhuman, with a clear biological basis. Taking this as his starting point, Honing—a music cognition researcher—visits a series of biological research centers to observe the ways that animals respond to music. He has studied scientists' accounts of Snowball, the cockatoo who could dance to a musical beat, and of Ronan, the sea lion, who was trained to move her head to a beat. Now Honing will be able to make his own observations. Honing tests a rhesus monkey for beat perception via an EEG; performs a listening experiment with zebra finches; considers why birds sing, and if they intend their songs to be musical; explains why many animals have perfect pitch; and watches marine mammals respond to sounds. He reports on the unforeseen twists and turns, doubts, and oversights that are a part of any scientific research—and which point to as many questions as answers. But, as he shows us, science is closing in on the biological and evolutionary source of our musicality.

Music as Biology

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Author : Dale Purves
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674972961
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Music as Biology written by Dale Purves and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universality of musical tones has long fascinated philosophers, scientists, musicians, and ordinary listeners. Why do human beings worldwide find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out of the billions that are possible? Why do differently organized scales elicit different emotions? Why are there so few notes in scales? In Music as Biology, Dale Purves argues that biology offers answers to these and other questions on which conventional music theory is silent. When people and animals vocalize, they generate tonal sounds—periodic pressure changes at the ear which, when combined, can be heard as melodies and harmonies. Human beings have evolved a sense of tonality, Purves explains, because of the behavioral advantages that arise from recognizing and attending to human voices. The result is subjective responses to tone combinations that are best understood in terms of their contribution to biological success over evolutionary and individual history. Purves summarizes evidence that the intervals defining Western and other scales are those with the greatest collective similarity to the human voice; that major and minor scales are heard as happy or sad because they mimic the subdued and excited speech of these emotional states; and that the character of a culture’s speech influences the tonal palette of its traditional music. Rethinking music theory in biological terms offers a new approach to centuries-long debates about the organization and impact of music.

A General History of Music

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Author : Charles Burney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General History of Music written by Charles Burney and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Origin of Music

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Author : Robert Fink
Publisher : Robert Martin Fink
ISBN 13 : 9780912424064
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Music written by Robert Fink and published by Robert Martin Fink. This book was released on 1981 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: