Love songs, dance tunes, bedtime songs for children, all of these kinds of music share patterns across cultures, a new study finds. Researchers who set up the study say this suggests a commonality in the way human minds create music. The findings were reported in Science magazine. Samuel Mehr was the lead author of a report on the study. He is a research associate in psychology at Harvard University in Massachusetts. Mehr noted that the study supports “the idea that there is some sort of set of governing rules for how human minds produce music worldwide.” He and other researchers studied musical recordings and ethnographic records from 60 societies around the world. They looked at a mix of very different cultures, such as the Highland Scots in Scotland, Nyangatom nomads in Ethiopia, and Aranda hunter-gatherers in Australia. The researchers found that music had a link with behaviors such as dancing and loving, among others. Manvir Singh is a graduate student in Harvard’s department of human evolutionary biology and a co-author of the study. Singh noted that children’s’ lullabies were likely to be slow and fluid while dance songs tended to be fast and lively. Another co-author of the study was Luke Glowacki, an anthropology professor at the Pennsylvania State University. He noted that the social purpose of the music influences how it sounds.
Title: Is Music Similar Across Cultures?
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data-end-time='32458'>The findings were reported in Science magazine.</span> <span data-start-time='32458' data-end-time='38583'>Samuel Mehr was the lead author of a report on the study.</span> <span data-start-time='38583' data-end-time='46104'> He is a research associate in psychology at Harvard University in Massachusetts.</span> <span data-start-time='46104' data-end-time='58396'>Mehr noted that the study supports “the idea that there is some sort of set of governing rules for how human minds produce music worldwide.”</span> <span data-start-time='58396' data-end-time='68938'>He and other researchers studied musical recordings and ethnographic records from 60 societies around the world.</span> <span data-start-time='68938' data-end-time='82896'>They looked at a mix of very different cultures, such as the Highland Scots in Scotland, Nyangatom nomads in Ethiopia, and Aranda hunter-gatherers in Australia.</span> <span data-start-time='82896' data-end-time='92188'>The researchers found that music had a link with behaviors such as dancing and loving, among others.</span> <span data-start-time='92188' data-end-time='101708'>Manvir Singh is a graduate student in Harvard’s department of human evolutionary biology and a co-author of the study.</span> <span data-start-time='101708' data-end-time='113229'>Singh noted that children’s’ lullabies were likely to be slow and fluid while dance songs tended to be fast and lively.</span> <span data-start-time='113229' data-end-time='122604'>Another co-author of the study was Luke Glowacki, an anthropology professor at the Pennsylvania State University.</span> <span data-start-time='122604' data-end-time='129125'>He noted that the social purpose of the music influences how it sounds.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' 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