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Zoomusicology: Music's Effect on Animals
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Zoomusicology:
Music's Effect on Animals
Rawan Hijazi
05/02/2019
Zoo musicology
Definition
Definition
A provisional definition: zoömusicology is the human valorization and analysis of the aesthetic qualities of non-human animal sounds.
What is it?
The History
Coined in 1983 by French composer François-Bernard Mâche, zoömusicology studies the musical aspects of animal sounds.
How did it start?
"If it turns out that music is a widespread phenomenon in several living species apart from man, this will very much call into question the definition of music, and more widely that of man and his culture, as well as the idea we have of the animal itself” (1983/1992: 95).
Animals
What are some animals that were studied?
Dog
Dogs?
At dog kennels, researchers found that classical music and heavy metal affect a dog.
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Birds?
It turns out that bird's brains react to making music in the same way human brains do
Bird
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Cows!
The music cows listen to apparently distinguishes the milk production and its speed.
Cow
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Elephants!!
Asian elephants can hold a harmonica very easily, as the end of their trunk has finger like abilities.
Elephant
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So what does this teach us?
Objective
Purpose?
A National Symphony Orchestra cellist and a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin teamed up to show that animals other than humans may actually experience emotion through their music.
Purpose
Well it might mean that what we experience when we listen to music has an evolutionary history, meaning the idea that we attach emotions to music may be something we have evolved to do
Where are these information from!?
Sources
https://thinkingonmusic.wordpress.com/tag/zoomusicology/
http://www.zoomusicology.com/Zoomusicology/Introduction.html
https://mic.com/articles/92571/scientific-studies-on-animals-reveal-just-how-much-music-shapes-the-natural-world#.y4C5O9qS9
https://www.cuteness.com/blog/content/science-tells-us-which-animals-like-music-and-which-dont
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=3933
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24400364
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