MUS 511 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE

OPEN BOOK: Be able to answer questions involving essential issues/experiments from the text.

READ through Chapter 6 (Meaning) in MUSIC, LANGUAGE AND THE BRAIN (page 351)

plus these articles:

The Illiterate Listener by Henkjan Honing

Rhythmic Cognition in Humans and Animals, by Tecumseh Fitch

Investigating the human-specificity of synchronization to music by Patel, et alia, 2008

The Biology and Evolution of Rhythm: Unravelling a Paradox, by Tecumseh Fitch, published in Rebuschat, et al (Eds): "Language and Music as Cognitive Systems"

The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve?, by Marc D. Hauser, Noam Chomsky, W. Tecumseh Fitch