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work_w6a7yvzmlnfl3n3ulhuaofq2va	Samuel A. Mehr	Form and Function in Human Song	2018.0	19	.pdf	application/pdf	17693	2404	63	corpus of ethnographic text on musical behavior from a representative sample of mostly appear to be tied to specific perceptual, cognitive, and affective faculties, including language (all societies put words to their songs), We used primary ethnographic text and field recordings of song performances to build two richly annotated cross-cultural NHS Ethnography is a corpus of ethnographic text from 60 societies with associated annotations. The ethnographic corpus reveals that music (including songs with words) appears in every society observed; that music varies along three dimensions (formality, arousal, religiosity), more within societies than across them; and that music is associated with certain behavioral contexts such of songs predict their primary behavioral context; that tonality is widespread, perhaps universal; that musical behaviors are remarkably similar (Fig. 3), such that a song with "average formality," We now turn to the NHS Discography to examine the musical content of songs in four song's behavioral context from its musical	./cache/work_w6a7yvzmlnfl3n3ulhuaofq2va.pdf	./txt/work_w6a7yvzmlnfl3n3ulhuaofq2va.txt