Algorithmic composition is the partial or total automation of the process of music composition
by using computers. Since the 1950s, different computational techniques related to Artificial …

The concept of cultural evolution was fundamental to the foundation of academic musicology
and the subfield of comparative musicology, but largely disappeared from discussion after …

Speech and song have been transmitted orally for countless human generations, changing
over time under the influence of biological, cognitive, and cultural pressures. Cross-cultural …

In modern societies, cultural change seems ceaseless. The flux of fashion is especially
obvious for popular music. While much has been written about the origin and evolution of …

Social networks readily transmit information, albeit with less than perfect fidelity. We present
a large-scale measurement of this imperfect information copying mechanism by examining …

Summary Culture evolves, 1–5 but the existence of cross-culturally general regularities of
cultural evolution is debated. 6–8 As a diverse but universal cultural phenomenon, music …

Researchers studying the emotional impact of music have not traditionally been concerned
with the principled relationship between form and function in evolved animal signals. The …

Understanding music popularity is important not only for the artists who create and perform
music but also for the music-related industry. It has not been studied well how music …

We introduce, review and analyse recent research in Music and Human-Computer
Interaction (HCI), also known as Music Interaction. After a general overview of the discipline …

We propose a return to the forgotten agenda of comparative musicology, one that is updated
with the paradigms of modern evolutionary theory and scientific methodology. Ever since the …