Why musical hierarchies?

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2023-05-24T15:37:09Z

2023-05-24T15:37:09Z

2021-09-30

2023-05-24T15:37:09Z

Abstract

Comentari a l'article: Savage, P., Loui, P., Tarr, B., Schachner, A., Glowacki, L., Mithen, S., & Fitch, W. (2021). Music as a coevolved system for social bonding. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, E59. Postprint: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/95527/ . doi:10.1017/S0140525X20000333


[eng] Credible signaling may have provided a selection pressure for producing and discriminating increasingly elaborate proto-musical signals. But, why evolve them to have hierarchical structure? We argue that the hierarchality of tonality and meter is a byproduct of domain-general mechanisms evolved for reasons other than credible signaling.

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English

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Cambridge University Press

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Versió preprint originalment publicada a PsyArXiv Preprints: https://psyarxiv.com/epnz4/ ; del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20001338

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2021, vol. 44, e100

https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/95527/

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