On Evolutionary Explanations of Musical Expressiveness
Evental Aesthetics 7 (1):6-29 (2018)
Abstract
In this paper, I will examine an evolutionary hypothesis about musical
expressiveness first proposed by Peter Kivy. I will first present the
hypothesis and explain why I take it to be different from ordinary
evolutionary explanations of musical expressiveness. I will then argue that
Kivy’s hypothesis is of crucial importance for most available resemblancebased
accounts of musical expressiveness. For this reason, it is particularly
important to assess its plausibility. After having reviewed the existing
literature on the topic, I will list five challenges the hypothesis is supposed
to meet. Although my list of challenges does not aim at exhaustiveness, I
believe that the hypothesis must meet all of the challenges I suggest if it is
to work as a cornerstone for a theory of musical expressiveness.
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