Evolving Animal Orchestra - In Search of What Makes Us Musical Honing Henkjan Professor of Music Cognition University of AmsterdamPevná vazba
Evolving Animal Orchestra - In Search of What Makes Us Musical Honing Henkjan Professor of Music Cognition University of AmsterdamPevná vazba A music researcher's quest to discover other musical…
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Evolving Animal Orchestra - In Search of What Makes Us Musical Honing Henkjan Professor of Music Cognition University of AmsterdamPevná vazba
A music researcher's quest to discover other musical species.Even those of us who can't play a musical instrument or lack a sense of rhythm can perceive and enjoy music. We are a musical species--but are we the only musical species? Research shows that all humans possess the trait of musicality.
In The Evolving Animal Orchestra, Henkjan Honing embarks upon a quest to discover if humans share the trait of musicality with other animals.Charles Darwin believed that musicality was a capacity of all animals, human and nonhuman, with a clear biological basis. Is our musical predisposition unique, like our linguistic ability? Taking this as his starting point, Honing--a music cognition researcher--visits a series of biological research centers to observe the ways that animals respond to music.
He has studied scientists' accounts of Snowball, the cockatoo who