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The origins of musicality

Honing, Henkjan, - Personal Name;

Principally revised versions of papers presented at the 2014 Lorentz Workshop "What Makes Us Musical Animals? Cognition, Biology and the Origins of Musicality," held in Leiden, the Netherlands, April 2014.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.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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Publisher: : The MIT Press., 2018
Collation: 1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) :illustrations
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9780262344548
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Subject(s): Music
Musical ability
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Statement of Responsibility: edited by Henkjan Honing ; foreword by W. Tecumseh Fitch.

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/4115/The-Origins-of-Musicality
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