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  2. Evolutionary musicology - Wikipedia

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    Like the origin of language, the origin of music has been a topic for speculation and debate for centuries. [3] Leading theories include Darwin's theory of partner choice (women choose male partners based on musical displays), the idea that human musical behaviors are primarily based on behaviors of other animals (see zoomusicology), the idea that music emerged because it promotes social ...

  3. List of music theorists - Wikipedia

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    Music Theory and the White Racial Frame (2020) Race in music, Russian and twentieth century music, as well as rap and hip hop [218] Ellie Hisama: Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon (2007) Gender, race, and sexuality in music theory. Popular music [219] Suzannah Clark: born 1969

  4. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    For example, the long and rich musical traditions unique to ancient and current cultures of Africa are primarily oral, but describe specific forms, genres, performance practices, tunings, and other aspects of music theory. [24] [25] Sacred harp music uses a different kind of scale and theory in practice. The music focuses on the solfege "fa ...

  5. 1960s - Wikipedia

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    The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1]While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, perform spacewalk and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western ...

  6. 1960s in music - Wikipedia

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    Garage rock was a raw form of rock music, particularly prevalent in North America in the mid-1960s and is called such because of the perception that many of the bands rehearsed in a suburban family garage. [49] [50] Garage rock songs often revolved around the traumas of high school life, with songs about "lying girls" being particularly common ...

  7. Music - Wikipedia

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    Theory, even of music of the common practice period, may take other forms. [155] Musical set theory is the application of mathematical set theory to music, first applied to atonal music. Speculative music theory, contrasted with analytic music theory, is devoted to the analysis and synthesis of music materials, for example tuning systems ...

  8. The eclipse of Darwinism - Wikipedia

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    The 1901 mutation theory of evolution held that species went through periods of rapid mutation, possibly as a result of environmental stress, that could produce multiple mutations, and in some cases completely new species, in a single generation. Its originator was the Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries.

  9. Counterculture of the 1960s - Wikipedia

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    During its early and mid-60s heyday, much free jazz was released by established labels such as Prestige, Blue Note and Impulse, as well as independents such as ESP Disk and BYG Actuel. Free improv or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved. The term can refer to both a ...