Towards an ethology of song: categorization of musical behaviour
dc.contributor.author | Lehmann, Christian | |
dc.contributor.author | Welker, Lorenz | |
dc.contributor.author | Schiefenhövel, Wulf | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-12-16T17:51:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-12-16T17:51:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lehmann, C., Welker, L. & Schiefenhövel, W. (2009). Towards an ethology of song: categorization of musical behaviour. Musicae Scientiae, Special issue 2009-2010, 321-338. | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/22594 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper deals with the differentiation and adaptive significance of musical, particularly singing behaviour. We discuss the relationship of speech and song and define song as a musical mode of speech. We argue for a focus on singing as the primary form of musical expression and discuss universal functions of singing as a mode of human communication and their possible adaptive significance. Starting from these universal capacities, from a number of recently discussed candidates for adaptive functions, and from the record of various cultural gender and biological sex differentiations related to music, a categorization of musical (particularly singing) behaviour, primarily based on sex differentiation, is proposed. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.subject.other | human ethology | en |
dc.subject.other | song | en |
dc.subject.other | musical behaviour | en |
dc.subject.other | sex differences | en |
dc.subject.other | adaptation | en |
dc.title | Towards an ethology of song: categorization of musical behaviour | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201804202227 | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | restrictedAccess |