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Sep. 11, 2009
Primate Music
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| There's research on whales singing and birds dancing, but what about monkeys and apes? In this segment, we'll look at the musical abilities of our fellow primates. In one study, researchers gave electronic keyboards to bonobos and asked them to play along with musicians such as Peter Gabriel and Paul McCartney. In another study, published this month in in the journal Biology Letters, researchers examined whether humans could compose music tailored to produce an emotional response in cotton-top tamarin monkeys. We'll talk about what other members of the primate kingdom can teach humans about music. |
Produced by Laura Pelcher
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Patricia Gray
Clinical Professor and Senior Research Scientist of BioMusic
Music Research Institute
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina -
David Teie
Cellist, National Symphony Orchestra
Washington D.C.
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