The origins of musicality / edited by Henkjan Honing ; foreword by W. Tecumseh Fitch.

Other author Honing, Henkjan.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2018]
Descriptionxii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Introduction: Musicality as an upbeat to music : introduction and research agenda / Henkjan Honing -- Origins, principles, and constraints. Four principles of biomusicology / W. Tecumseh Fitch. Five fundamental constraints on theories of the origins of music / Bjèorn Merker, Iain Morley, and Willem Zuidema. The origins of music : auditory scene analysis, evolution, and culture in musical creation / Laurel J. Trainor. Music as a transformative technololgy of the mind : an update / Aniruddh D. Patel -- Cross-cultural, cross-species, and cross-domain studies. Cross-cultural perspectives on music and musicality / Sandra E. Trehub, Judith Becker, and Iain Morley. Searching for the origins of musicality across species / Marisa Hoeschele, Hugo Merchant, Yukiko Kikuchi, Yuko Hattori, and Carel ten Cate. Finding the beat : a neural perspective across humans and nonhuman primates / Hugo Merchant, Jessica Grahn, Laurel J. Trainor, Martin Rohrmeier, and W. Tecumseh Fitch. Neural overlap in processing music and speech / Isabelle Peretz, Dominique T. Vuvan, Marie-âElaine Lagrois, and Jorge L. Armony. Defining the biological bases of individual differences in musicality / Bruno Gingras, Henkjan Honing, Isabelle Peretz, Laurel J. Trainor, and Simon E. Fisher -- Structure, affect, and history. Formal models of structure building in music, language, and animal song / Willem Zuidema, Dieuwke Hupkes, Geraint A. Wiggins, Constance Scharff, and Martin Rohrmeier. The evolutionary roots of creativity : mechanisms and motivations / Geraint A. Wiggins, Peter Tyack, Constance Scharff, and Martin Rohrmeier. Affect induction through musical sounds : an ethological perspective / David Huron. Carl Stumpf and the beginnings of research in musicality / Julia Kursell.
General notePrincipally 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2017033345
ISBN9780262037457 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)