Entrainment (biomusicology)

Entrainment (biomusicology)

Entrainment in the biomusicological sense refers to the synchronization of organisms to an external rhythm, usually produced by other organisms with whom they interact socially. Examples include firefly flashing, mosquito wing clapping as well as human music and dance.

Bibliography

cite book
author = Merker, B.
editor = Wallin, N. L., Merker, B. and Brown, S.
year = 2000
chapter = [http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/C.Knight/Synchronised%20Chorusing.pdf Synchronous chorusing and human origins]
title = The origins of music
pages = 315-327
accessdate = 2008-05-05

cite journal
author = Hagen, E.H.
coauthors = Bryant, G.A.
year = 2003
title = Music And Dance As A Coalition Signaling System
journal = Human Nature
volume = 14
issue = 1
pages = 21-51
url = http://www.springerlink.com/index/XWG77394XXEKHKVB.pdf
accessdate = 2008-05-05

cite journal
author = Clayton, M.
coauthors = Sager, R.; Will, U.
year = 2004
title = In time with the music: The concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology
journal = ESEM Counterpoint
volume = 1
pages = 1-82
url = http://sica.stanford.edu/events/brainwaves/Will-InTimeWithTheMusic.pdf
accessdate = 2008-05-05

cite journal
author = Gibson, G.
coauthors = Russell, I.
year = 2006
title = Flying in Tune: Sexual Recognition in Mosquitoes
journal = Current Biology
volume = 16
issue = 13
pages = 1311-1316
url = http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982206016368
accessdate = 2008-05-05

ee also

*Biomusicology
*Choir
*Evolutionary musicology
*Unison
*Zoomusicology

External links

A [http://www.youtube.com/v/QG6YAoFWIeY YouTube video] showing Indian musicians while entraining.


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