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ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2021

Why musical hierarchies?

Courtney B Hilton, Rie Asano, Cedric Boeckx

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Article in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Children infer the behavioral contexts of unfamiliar foreign songs.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Courtney B HiltonDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA02138, USA. courtneyhilton@g.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-9113-1222
Rie AsanoInstitute of Musicology, Systematic Musicology, University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923Cologne, Germany rie.asano@uni-koeln.de.ORCID 0000-0002-6901-7885
Cedric BoeckxICREA (Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies and Research)/Universitat de Barcelona, Section of General Linguistics/Universitat de Barcelona Institute for Complex Systems (UBICS), Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007Barcelona, Spain. cedric.boeckx@ub.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8882-9718

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Credible signaling may have provided a selection pressure for producing and discriminating increasingly elaborate proto-musical signals. But, why evolve them to have hierarchical structure? We argue that the hierarchality of tonality and meter is a byproduct of domain-general mechanisms evolved for reasons other than credible signaling.

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