What's not music, but feels like music to you?
Vijay Iyer
Abstract
The category "music" as used in this area of science is inconsistent and unstable, and its logical relationship to the word "musicality" - used by scientists to denote the human capacity for music - is circular. Therefore, rather than pursue the question, "Why did music(ality) evolve?" let us ask more inclusively, "What experiences in humankind's deep past might have felt like music?"
Topics & Concepts
MusicalityMusic and emotionPsychologyMusic psychologyMusic educationMusic historyCognitive psychologyCognitive scienceAestheticsPopular musicVisual artsArtPedagogyNeuroscience and Music PerceptionMusic History and CultureMusic Therapy and Health