Re: Evolutionary Reason ?

On May 9, 2:11=A0am, alertj...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
My question is inspired by this TED talk:http://www.ted.com/index.php/tal=
ks/dan_dennett_cute_sexy_sweet_funny....

I was wondering whether there is any evolutionary reason why humans
love music.

Comments ?

This is an open question about a very big subject. For example, see
http://www.sfu.ca/psyc/brown/musilanguage.pdf

The =93Musilanguage=94 Model of Music Evolution
Steven Brown

"Analysis of the phrase structure and phonological properties of
musical and lin-
guistic utterances suggests that music and language evolved from a
common
ancestor,something I refer to as the =93musilanguage=94stage.In this
view,the many
structural features shared between music and language are the result
of their
emergence from a joint evolutionary precursor rather than from
fortuitous par-
allelism or from one function begetting the other.Music and language
are seen
as reciprocal specializations of a dual-natured referential emotive
communica-
tive precursor, whereby music emphasizes sound as emotive meaning and
lan-
guage emphasizes sound as referential meaning. The musilanguage stage
must
have at least three properties for it to qualify as both a precursor
and scaffold
for the evolution of music and language: lexical tone, combinatorial
phrase for-
mation,and expressive phrasing mechanisms. "

--
Joe




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