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BIOLOGY AND MUSIC: Enhanced: The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music
Patricia M. Gray, Bernie Krause, Jelle Atema, Roger Payne, Carol Krumhansl, Luis Baptista
What is it that drives humans, whales, birds, and many other animals to make music? In a fascinating Perspective, Gray and her colleagues compare the ways that birds, whales, and humans make music and ask the provocative question: Is music universal?
P. M. Gray is at National Musical Arts, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC 20016, USA. B. Krause is at Wild Sanctuary Inc. J. Atema is at the Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA. R. Payne is at Ocean Alliance, Lincoln, MA 01773, USA. C. Krumhansl is in the Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. L. Baptista was at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 99418, USA.
