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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.ContributorsJorge 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-�laine Lagrois, Hugo Merchant, Bj�rn 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
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The Origins of Musicality edited by Henkjan Honing The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in Syntax LT Std and Times New Roman by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Honing, Henkjan. Title: The origins of musicality / edited by Henkjan Honing ; foreword by W. Tecumseh Fitch. Description: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017033345 | ISBN 9780262037457 (hardcover : alk. paper) eISBN 9780262344531 Subjects: LCSH: Music—Origin. | Musical ability. Classification: LCC ML3800 .O744 2018 | DDC 781.1/1—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017033345 ePub Version 1.0 Table of Contents Title page Copyright page Foreword Preface I Introduction 1 Musicality as an Upbeat to Music: Introduction and Research Agenda II Origins, Principles, and Constraints 2 Four Principles of Biomusicology 3 Five Fundamental Constraints on Theories of the Origins of Music 4 The Origins of Music: Auditory Scene Analysis, Evolution, and Culture in Musical Creation 5 Music as a Transformative Technology of the Mind: An Update III Cross-Cultural, Cross-Species, and Cross-Domain Studies 6 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Music and Musicality 7 Searching for the Origins of Musicality across Species 8 Finding the Beat: A Neural Perspective across Humans and Nonhuman Primates 9 Neural Overlap in Processing Music and Speech 10 Defining the Biological Bases of Individual Differences in Musicality IV Structure, Affect, and History 11 Formal Models of Structure Building in Music, Language, and Animal Song 12 The Evolutionary Roots of Creativity: Mechanisms and Mo