The Origins of Musicality

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Henkjan Honing (Professor of Music Cognition, University of Amsterdam) Henkjan Honing (Professor of Music Cognition, University of Amsterdam)

The Origins of Musicality

Henkjan Honing (Professor of Music Cognition, University of Amsterdam), Henkjan Honing (Professor of Music Cognition, University of Amsterdam), W. Tecumseh Fitch (Professor, University of Vienna) , Björn Merker

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MIT Press
20 August 2019

Theory of music & musicology; Drug-induced states; Wave mechanics (vibration & acoustics); Neurosciences

Series: The MIT Press

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- 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

Contributions by: Henkjan Honing (Professor of Music Cognition University of Amsterdam), W. Tecumseh Fitch (Professor, University of Vienna), Björn Merker, Iain Morley (Oxford University)
Edited by: Henkjan Honing (Professor of Music Cognition University of Amsterdam)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 17mm
ISBN: 9780262538510
ISBN 10: 0262538512
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 20 August 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Henkjan Honing is Professor of Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam and editor of The Origins of Musicality (MIT Press). Henkjan Honing is Professor of Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam and editor of The Origins of Musicality (MIT Press). Bj rn Merker is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Biomusicology at Mid Sweden University, stersund. Henkjan Honing is Professor of Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam and editor of The Origins of Musicality (MIT Press). David Huron is Distinguished Professor in the School of Music and in the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Ohio State University; he is author of Sweet Anticipation- Music and the Psychology of Expectation (MIT Press).

Reviews for The Origins of Musicality

The Origins of Musicality asks the sorts of questions that fascinate students and the general public, but that more traditional musicologists have, in recent years, rarely ventured answers to: what is music, where does it come from, and why do we do it? The book represents an invaluable and rich picture of the state of the art in fields where research can become outdated far more quickly than in traditional musicology. -Music & Letters