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Why musical hierarchies?
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2021
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Credible signaling may have provided a selection pressure for producing and discriminating increasingly elaborate proto-musical signals. But why evolve them to have hierarchical structure? We argue that the hierarchality of tonality and meter is a byproduct of domain-general mechanisms evolved for reasons other than credible signaling.
doi:10.31234/osf.io/epnz4
fatcat:kyxhal3ef5dv3ej24it4b4urj4