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The origins of musicality / edited by Henkjan Honing.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2018]

Music -- Origin -- Congresses.

Musical ability -- Congresses.

9780262538510 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

0262538512 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

xii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Introduction: Musicality as an upbeat to music : introduction and research agenda / Henkjan Honing -- Origins, principles, and constraints. Four principles of biomusicology / W. Tecumseh Fitch. Five fundamental constraints on theories of the origins of music / Björn Merker, Iain Morley, and Willem Zuidema. The origins of music : auditory scene analysis, evolution, and culture in musical creation / Laurel J. Trainor. Music as a transformative technology of the mind : an update / Aniruddh D. Patel -- Cross-cultural, cross-species, and cross-domain studies. Cross-cultural perspectives on music and musicality / Sandra E. Trehub, Judith Becker, and Iain Morley. Searching for the origins of musicality across species / Marisa Hoeschele, Hugo Merchant, Yukiko Kikuchi, Yuko Hattori, and Carel ten Cate. Finding the beat : a neural perspective across humans and nonhuman primates / Hugo Merchant, Jessica Grahn, Laurel J. Trainor, Martin Rohrmeier, and W. Tecumseh Fitch. Neural overlap in processing music and speech / Isabelle Peretz, Dominique T. Vuvan, Marie-Élaine Lagrois, and Jorge L. Armony. Defining the biological bases of individual differences in musicality / Bruno Gingras, Henkjan Honing, Isabelle Peretz, Laurel J. Trainor, and Simon E. Fisher -- Structure, affect, and history. Formal models of structure building in music, language, and animal song / Willem Zuidema, Dieuwke Hupkes, Geraint A. Wiggins, Constance Scharff, and Martin Rohrmeier. The evolutionary roots of creativity : mechanisms and motivations / Geraint A. Wiggins, Peter Tyack, Constance Scharff, and Martin Rohrmeier. Affect induction through musical sounds : an ethological perspective / David Huron. Carl Stumpf and the beginnings of research in musicality / Julia Kursell.

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 [Publisher description]

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