1.Why is musical timbre so well developed? Is it an evolutionary adaptation? Following David Huron's work, are we able to say that timbre recognition development could be an advantage for humans? Maybe it is possible to build a timbre history. What we today call timbre recognition was arguably one of the most important safety measures that primitive humans had during the night. Timbre perception was highly developed in order to recognize potencially dangerous animals that they could not see in the dark. Humans were actually able to imitate these dangerous sounds with their pitch and timbral scales. Sound imitation was used to communicate which timbres should people be aware of.
Probably the first musical instruments that were studied by humans were animals. Humans may have needed to organize the timbral, rhythmical and pitch related features of dangerous animals. Grunts, growls and steps were analyzed in order to build a functional image of the animal that could let them decide whether to escape or fight against the animal.
Now we are able to go back again to Huron's work on music and social bond theory. It is also possible to study the interaction between mother and child during development, where music and movement are heavily related. Temporal arts could be the result of these development. In my opinion, art could have been useless itself, but an unconscious preparation for survival may have been developed.
It may be useful to make a blend between musical studies and psychoacoustic studies in order to study these topics in detail.
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