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. 2021 Sep 30:44:e100.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20001338.

Why musical hierarchies?

Courtney B Hilton  1   2 , Rie Asano  3 , Cedric Boeckx  4
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Why musical hierarchies?

Courtney B Hilton et al. Behav Brain Sci. .

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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