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Primitive music : an inquiry into the origin and development of music, songs, instruments, dances, and pantomimes of savage races
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ISBN: 0511693737 1108003729 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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A Victorian study of the music, instruments and dance of the world's indigenous peoples from which the author, a pioneer in comparative musicology, develops his theory of the origin of music based on rhythm and an innate sense of time, rather than the melody of speech.


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The prehistory of music
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ISBN: 9780199234080 0199234086 019150209X 0191804282 9780191502095 9781306458931 1306458935 9780191804281 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford

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Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest-known cave art. Music has been the subject of keen investigation across a great diversity of fields, from neuroscience and psychology to ethnography, archaeology, and its own dedicated field, musicology. Despite the great contributions that these studies have made towards understanding musical behaviours, much remains mysterious about this ubiquitous humanphenomenon - not least, its origins.In a ground-breaking study, this volume brings together evidence from these fields, a


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Le musical : essai sur les fondements anthropologiques de l'art
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ISBN: 2252018089 9782252018088 Year: 1976 Volume: 26 Publisher: Paris : Klincksieck,

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