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Studying the Effect of Oral Transmission on Melodic Structure using Online Iterated Singing Experiments

2022-05-11

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Since generations, singing and speech have been mainly transmitted orally. How does oral transmission shape the evolution of music? Here, we developed a method for conducting online transmission experiments, in which sung melodies are passed from one singer to the next. We show that cognitive and motor constraints play a profound role in the emergence of melodic structure. Specifically, initially random tones deve...

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Literature Corpus work: c3075565-f80e-5b8d-8c3c-442917ba60d4
DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.10.491366

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