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Samuel A Mehr1,2,3, Manvir Singh4, Dean Knox5, Daniel M Ketter6,7, Daniel Pickens-Jones8, S Atwood2, Christopher Lucas9, Nori Jacoby10, Alena A Egner2, Erin J Hopkins2, Rhea M Howard2, Joshua K Hartshorne11, Mariela V Jennings11, Jan Simson2,12, Constance M Bainbridge2, Steven Pinker2, Timothy J O'Donnell13, Max M Krasnow2, Luke Glowacki14.
Abstract
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.Entities:
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Year: 2019 PMID： 31753969 PMCID： PMC7001657 DOI： 10.1126/science.aax0868
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728