The comparison of world music cultures has been a recurring topic in the field of musicology
since the end of the nineteenth century. Recent advances in technology in the field of Music …

Together with language, music is perhaps our most distinctive behavioral trait. Following the
lead of evolutionary linguistic research, different hypotheses have been proposed to explain …

Scales, sets of discrete pitches that form the basis of melodies, are thought to be one of the
most universal hallmarks of music. But we know relatively little about cross-cultural diversity …

This chapter addresses sensation and perception of pitch mainly from a functional
perspective. Anatomical and physiological facts concerning the auditory pathway are …

In this paper we present a model of the genesis and evolution of music under the effects of
changes in the management of aggression throughout the course of human cultural …

In the field of sound and music computing, only a handful of studies are concerned with the
pursuit of new musical knowledge. There is a substantial body of corpus analysis research …

In exploratory studies of large music collections where often no ground truth is available, it is
essential to evaluate the suitability of the underlying methods prior to drawing any …

This article focuses on the history of the Greek-Catholic Spiritual Songbook (1939), the first
Finnish Orthodox Christian hymnal to include paraliturgical songs. It aims to retrace the …

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