TY - BOOK ID - 52550236 TI - The origins of musicality PY - 2018 SN - 0262037459 0262344548 9780262344548 9780262037457 0262344556 PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - Music KW - Musical ability KW - Origin KW - ARTS/Music & Sound Studies KW - LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General KW - COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General KW - Ability, Musical KW - Competence, Musical KW - Musical competence KW - Musical talent KW - Ability KW - Art music KW - Art music, Western KW - Classical music KW - Musical compositions KW - Musical works KW - Serious music KW - Western art music KW - Western music (Western countries) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52550236 AB - 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. ER -