Universality and diversity in human song.
Journal
Science (New York, N.Y.)
ISSN: 1095-9203
Titre abrégé: Science
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0404511
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
22 11 2019
22 11 2019
Historique:
received:
01
03
2019
accepted:
24
10
2019
entrez:
23
11
2019
pubmed:
23
11
2019
medline:
28
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
What is universal about music, and what varies? We built a corpus of ethnographic text on musical behavior from a representative sample of the world's societies, as well as a discography of audio recordings. The ethnographic corpus reveals that music (including songs with words) appears in every society observed; that music varies along three dimensions (formality, arousal, religiosity), more within societies than across them; and that music is associated with certain behavioral contexts such as infant care, healing, dance, and love. The discography-analyzed through machine summaries, amateur and expert listener ratings, and manual transcriptions-reveals that acoustic features of songs predict their primary behavioral context; that tonality is widespread, perhaps universal; that music varies in rhythmic and melodic complexity; and that elements of melodies and rhythms found worldwide follow power laws.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31753969
pii: 366/6468/eaax0868
doi: 10.1126/science.aax0868
pmc: PMC7001657
mid: NIHMS1552125
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Subventions
Organisme : NIH HHS
ID : DP5 OD024566
Pays : United States
Commentaires et corrections
Type : CommentIn
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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