Abstract Pentatonism in ancient Greek music refers to so called ‘gapped scales’, quoted by Pseudo-Aristotle, Pseudo-Plutarch, Nicomachus and Aristides Quintilianus. In the case of Nicomachus, interchangeabilities pitches positions notes, with musical nomenclature, make text incomprehensible. These extracts have already been analyzed Chailley (1956, 1968), Barker (1989, 2007) Franklin (2019). It...

This study focuses on the educational and literacy dimensions embedded within Putian coastal folk songs in Fujian Province, China. The investigates cultural significance historical development of these songs, employing research methods from musicology ethnomusicology. With a particular emphasis region Putian, aims to uncover value aspects traditional musical compositions. findings reveal existe...

My research focuses on creating an AI-supported Digital Research Environment (DRE) that helps analysing and systematizing folk music tunes with the help of latest information theory database management results. The study may be ex- tended to entire source material accumulated by researchers so far, thus inte- grating Hungarian ethnomusicology results last hundred years. In this way, new dimensi...

THE ORIGINS and adaptive significance of music, long an elusive target, are now active topics of empirical study, with many interesting developments over the past few years. This article reviews research in anthropology, ethnomusicology, developmental and comparative psychology, neuropsychology, and neurophysiology that bears on questions concerning the origins and evolution of music. We focus ...