Summary Culture evolves, 1–5 but the existence of cross-culturally general regularities of
cultural evolution is debated. 6–8 As a diverse but universal cultural phenomenon, music …

Three-voiced funeral songs from Svaneti in North-West Georgia (also referred to as Zär) are
believed to represent one of Georgia's oldest preserved forms of collective music-making …

Theories of the origin of musical scales from the ancient Greeks to the present day have
assumed that the intervals comprising scales are defined by specific mathematical ratios …

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 …

The universality and diversity of music in human societies make it an important research
model for understanding how cultural features change over time and space. In this chapter …

Global music diversity is a popular topic for both scientific and humanities researchers, but
often for different reasons. Scientific research typically focuses on the generalities through …

В работе рассматривается Music Information Retrieval—область вычислительного
музыковедения, которая активно развивается в современном мире. В рамках статьи …