As part of a major collaborative research initiative, Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS), we developed a protocol for obtaining audiovisual information reflecting aspects of the ability to sing. We also developed a digital library prototype, the Children's International Medi...

How do people communicate using music? / David J. Hargreaves, Raymond Macdonald, and Dorothy Miell -- Music and meaning, ambiguity, and evolution / Ian Cross -- Music and conversation / R. Keith Sawyer -- Cognition, representation and communication. Music cognition : defining constraints on musical ...

In two experiments, the empirical parsing of melodies was compared with predictions derived from four grouping preference rules of A Generative Theory of Tonal Music.