Researchers spent five years painstakingly creating a database which features music created by people around the world.
, a fellow of the Harvard Data Science Initiative and research associate in psychology, recalled in a statement how he asked a librarian at the institution to help, and 20 minutes later was presented with a cart of 20 cases of reel-to-reel recordings of traditional Celtic music.
Singh said the result is the most comprehensive test of whether music is universal. The research published in the journalThe team confirmed music is indeed universal, and found evidence that tonality is used around the world, suggesting it is a common musical grammar. Explaining the context of the study, Singh continued:"A major academic question is—what are the psychological and evolutionary origins of music? E.g., are we evolved to make it? But understanding why we engage in a behavior, we first have to understand what it looks like. And surprisingly, there has been very little work in answering the basic questions of what the behavioral and acoustical patterns are of music worldwide.
Like all research, the study had its limitations. Singh said the team could only work with what they had, including being constrained to descriptions of music that ethnographers considered important enough to write about. Also, the study featured"only" 118 recordings from 86 societies, spanning dance songs, healing songs, love songs, and lullabies.
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