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1 online resource (xii, 498 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Consists of papers given at a workshop on the origins of music held in Fiesole, Italy, May 1997, the first of a series called Florentine Workshops in Biomusicology. |
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"A Bradford Book." |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
I. Beginning. 1. An introduction to evolutionary musicology / by Steven Brown, Björn Merker and Nils L. Wallin -- II. Vocal communication in animals. 2. Prolegomena to a biomusicology / by Simha Arom -- 3. Origins of music and speech : insights from animals / by Peter Marler -- 4. Birdsong repertoires : their origins and use / by Peter J.B. Slater -- 5. What's behind a song? the neural basis of song learning in birds / by Carol Whaling -- 6. Sound and the fury : primate vocalizations as reflections of emotion and thought / by Marc D. Hauser -- 7. Gibbon songs and human music from an evolutionary perspective / by Thomas Geissmann -- 8. Social organization as a factor in the origins of language and music / by Maria Ujhelyi -- 9. Progressively changing songs of humpback whales : a window on the creative process in a wild animal / by Katharine Payne -- III. Music, language, and human evolution. 10. Can biomusicology learn from language evolution studies? / by Derek Bickerton -- 11. Toward an evolutionary theory of music and language / by Jean Molino -- 12. Paleoneurology and the biology of music / by Harry Jerison -- 13. Hominid brain evolution and the origins of music / by Dean Falk -- 14. Fossil evidence for the origin of speech sounds / by David W. Frayer and Chris Nicolay -- 15. New perspectives on the beginnings of music : archeological and musicological analysis of a Middle Paleolithic bone "flute" / by Drago Kunej and Ivan Turk. |
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IV. Theories of music origin. 16. "Musilanguage" model of music evolution / by Steven Brown -- 17. How music fixed "nonsense" into significant formulas : on rhythm, repetition, and meaning / by Bruce Richman -- 18. Synchronous chorusing and human origins / by Björn Merker -- 19. Evolution of human music through sexual selection / by Geoffrey Miller -- 20. Simulating the evolution of musical behavior / by Peter Todd -- 21. Antecedents of the temporal arts in early mother-infant interaction / by Ellen Dissanayake -- 22. A neurobiological role of music in social bonding / by Walter Freeman -- V. Universals in music. 23. Human processing predispositions and musical universals / by Sandra Trehub -- 24. Question of innate competencies in musical communication / by Michel Imberty -- 25. An ethnomusicologist contemplates universals in musical sound and musical culture / by Bruno Nettl -- 26. Necessity of and problems with a universal musicology / by François-Bernard Mâche -- VI. End of the beginning. 27. Listening to music. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- Origin -- Congresses.
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Music -- Origin. |
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Human evolution -- Congresses.
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Human evolution. |
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Musicology -- Congresses.
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Musicology. |
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Biomusicology |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Congressen (vorm)
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Wallin, Nils Lennart.
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Merker, Björn.
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Brown, Steven, 1963 March 26-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Origins of music. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000 0262232065 (DLC) 98054088 (OCoLC)40396102 |
| ISBN |
0585200068 (electronic book) |
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9780585200064 (electronic book) |
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0262232065 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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9780262232067 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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