The Pastoral Origin of Semiotically Functional Tonal Organization of Music.

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a new line of inquiry into when and how music as a semiotic system was born. Eleven principal expressive aspects of music each contains specific structural patterns whose configuration signifies a certain affective state. This distinguishes the tonal organization of music from the phonetic and prosodic organization of natural languages and animal communication. The question of music's origin can therefore be answered by establishing the point in human history at which all eleven expressive aspects might have been abstracted from the instinct-driven primate calls and used to express human psycho-emotional states. Etic analysis of acoustic parameters is the prime means of cross-examination of the typical patterns of expression of the basic emotions in human music versus a

SUBMITTER: Nikolsky A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7396614 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature