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From great man to fittest survivor: Reputation, recapitulation and survival in Victorian concepts of Wagner s genius
(2009)
The transposition of the Great Man into the Fittest Survivor is at the very root of an endemic interchange between the sciences and the arts in late Victorian culture, giving rich metaphoric substance to more heavily ...
From maladaptation to competition to cooperation in the evolution of musical behaviour
(2009)
We propose a model of how a maladaptive and competitive system of musical interaction, based on a notion of enchantment, can evolve towards a cooperative system. This model supports our position that social competitive ...
Grounding in musical interaction: Evidence from jazz performances
(2008)
This study explores the issue of mutual understanding between musicians in improvised performance. It attempts to describe how improvising musicians indicate to each other that they have grasped each other's expressive ...
How similar is similar?
(2009)
In the first part of the paper a theoretical discussion is presented regarding the fundamental concept of similarity and its relation to cue abstraction and categorisation. It is maintained that similarity is by definition ...
If music is the food of love, what about survival and reproductive success?
(2008)
This article departs from many discussions of the origin, evolution, and adaptive function(s) of music by treating music not as perceptual qualities (pitch, timbre, meter), formal elements (prosody, melody, harmony, ...
Impact of melodic organization on perceived structure and emotional expression in music
(2006)
The traditional view of tonality has been criticized for being static in neglecting the impact of other musical features such as melody, rhythm and loudness on tonality. The purpose of this paper was to investigate a ...
Individual emotional reactions towards music: Evolutionary-based universals?
(2009)
Music can elicit strong feelings and physiological arousal in listeners. However, it is still under debate as to whether these reactions are based on universal reaction patterns or are acquired during a process of ...
Intensity changes and perceived similarity: Inter-parametric analogies
(2007)
Music theorists and psychologists have described diverse musical processes in terms of changes (increase or decrease) in intensity . This paper examines the hypothesis that analogous intensity changes in different musical ...
Interpretation and performance in Bryn Harrison s être-temps
(2005)
The majority of studies of performance focus on the tonal and metric music of the common-practice period, studied at the moment of performance rather than over a period of rehearsal, and usually divorced from the ...