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Communicative Musicality

Hardcover • 2009 • English • 1. edition

Communicative Musicality: Exploring the basis of human companionship

By Malloch, Stephen, Trevarthen, Colwyn

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Communicative Musicality explores the intrinsic musical nature of human interaction. The theory of communicative musicality was developed from groundbreaking studies showing how in mother/infant communication there exist noticeable patterns of timing, pulse, voice timbre, and gesture. Without intending to, the exchange between a mother and her infant follow many of the rules of musical performance, including rhythm and timing. This is the first book to be devoted to this topic. In a collection ...Show more

Theory of music and musicology
History of music
Techniques of music / music tutorials / teaching of music

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ISBN

9780198566281

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2009

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Communicative Musicality

Format

Hardcover

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