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-Elaine Lagrois, Hugo Merchant, Bjoern
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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