Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report.
Journal: Science advances
Volume: 10
Issue: 20
Year of Publication: 2024
Affiliated Institutions: Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan. Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK. Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA. Center for Algorithmic and Robotized Synthesis, Institute for Basic Science, Ulsan, South Korea. School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK. Computational Auditory Perception Group, Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. School of Arts, Music Discipline, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa. Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Music Cognition Lab, Department of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay. School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. Independent Researcher, New Delhi, India. Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan. Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan. Haponetay, Shimizu-cho, Hokkaido, Japan. Independent researcher, Tokyo, Japan. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada. Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK. Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Institute of Biological and Medical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Centre of Linguistics of the University of Porto (CLUP), Porto, Portugal. Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Art Studies, Musicology Institute, Poznań, Poland. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. Department of Psychiatry, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Department of Musicology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Independent researcher, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Headmistress, The Royal Music Academy, Yangon, Myanmar. Department of Cultural Policy, University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany. Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Director, Indigenous Research, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research); Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia. International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Tbilisi, Georgia. South-West University Neofit Rilski, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden. Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology, University of Music and Performing Arts-MDW, Wien, Austria. Department of Music and Dance, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. Department of Music, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana. Department of Ethnomusicology and Folklore, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. Department of Humanities and Arts, University of Los Lagos, Osorno, Chile. Traditional Performer and Culture Bearer, Castro, Chile. Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania. Music, Imaging and Neural Dynamics Lab, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. Music Department, Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Txemim Puri Project-Puri Language Research, Vitalization and Teaching/Recording and Preservation of Puri History and Culture, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Independent Researcher, Brazil. Department of Education, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Institute for English and American Studies (IEAS), Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany. Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada. Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Abstract summary
Both music and language are found in all known human societies, yet no studies have compared similarities and differences between song, speech, and instrumental music on a global scale. In this Registered Report, we analyzed two global datasets: (i) 300 annotated audio recordings representing matched sets of traditional songs, recited lyrics, conversational speech, and instrumental melodies from our 75 coauthors speaking 55 languages; and (ii) 418 previously published adult-directed song and speech recordings from 209 individuals speaking 16 languages. Of our six preregistered predictions, five were strongly supported: Relative to speech, songs use (i) higher pitch, (ii) slower temporal rate, and (iii) more stable pitches, while both songs and speech used similar (iv) pitch interval size and (v) timbral brightness. Exploratory analyses suggest that features vary along a "musi-linguistic" continuum when including instrumental melodies and recited lyrics. Our study provides strong empirical evidence of cross-cultural regularities in music and speech.Authors & Co-authors: Ozaki Yuto Y Tierney Adam A Pfordresher Peter Q PQ McBride John M JM Benetos Emmanouil E Proutskova Polina P Chiba Gakuto G Liu Fang F Jacoby Nori N Purdy Suzanne C SC Opondo Patricia P Fitch W Tecumseh WT Hegde Shantala S Rocamora Martín M Thorne Rob R Nweke Florence F Sadaphal Dhwani P DP Sadaphal Parimal M PM Hadavi Shafagh S Fujii Shinya S Choo Sangbuem S Naruse Marin M Ehara Utae U Sy Latyr L Parselelo Mark Lenini ML Anglada-Tort Manuel M Hansen Niels Chr NC Haiduk Felix F Færøvik Ulvhild U Magalhães Violeta V Krzyżanowski Wojciech W Shcherbakova Olena O Hereld Diana D Barbosa Brenda Suyanne BS Varella Marco Antonio Correa MAC van Tongeren Mark M Dessiatnitchenko Polina P Zar Su Zar SZ El Kahla Iyadh I Muslu Olcay O Troy Jakelin J Lomsadze Teona T Kurdova Dilyana D Tsope Cristiano C Fredriksson Daniel D Arabadjiev Aleksandar A Sarbah Jehoshaphat Philip JP Arhine Adwoa A Meachair Tadhg Ó TÓ Silva-Zurita Javier J Soto-Silva Ignacio I Millalonco Neddiel Elcie Muñoz NEM Ambrazevičius Rytis R Loui Psyche P Ravignani Andrea A Jadoul Yannick Y Larrouy-Maestri Pauline P Bruder Camila C Teyxokawa Tutushamum Puri TP Kuikuro Urise U Natsitsabui Rogerdison R Sagarzazu Nerea Bello NB Raviv Limor L Zeng Minyu M Varnosfaderani Shahaboddin Dabaghi SD Gómez-Cañón Juan Sebastián JS Kolff Kayla K der Nederlanden Christina Vanden Bosch CVB Chhatwal Meyha M David Ryan Mark RM Setiawan I Putu Gede IPG Lekakul Great G Borsan Vanessa Nina VN Nguqu Nozuko N Savage Patrick E PE
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Citations : C. Chambers, “Strong evidence for cross-cultural regularities in music and speech,” Peer Community Registered Report 1, (100469) (2023); https://rr.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec?id=469.Authors : 75
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Doi : eadm9797SSN : 2375-2548