To Wail With a Whale Anatomy of an Interspecies Duet
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| author | David Rothenberg |
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| contents | To Wail With a Whale Anatomy of an Interspecies Duet David Rothenberg Arte humpback whale Interspecies music evolution of musical styles A clarinet was played along live with a singing male humpback whale off a boat off the coastof Maui. A four and a half minute passage of the duet is visually analyzed using a soundspectrogram to suggest that the whale may alter his song in response to what the clarinetplayed. This observation is consistent with the fact that humpback whales rapidly changetheir song during breeding season from week to week, with all the male whales singing thesame new song, even as it steadily evolves in a very short period of time. Interspecies musicthus demonstrates that a male humpback whale is able to quickly match new pitched, musicalsounds it has never heard before, a result different from most humpback whale playbackexperiments, where the whales have shown little interest in the sounds we play back to them,aside from summer feeding sounds played off-season in the winter. This result helps toconfirm the reigning theory that humpback whales have a culture of song that changessteadily over the course of a single season. 2008 artículo científico 1697-0101 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82201212 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=822 Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música application/pdf Sociedad de Etnomusicología Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música (España) Num.12 |
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| spellingShingle | To Wail With a Whale Anatomy of an Interspecies Duet David Rothenberg Arte humpback whale Interspecies music evolution of musical styles To Wail With a Whale Anatomy of an Interspecies Duet David Rothenberg Arte humpback whale Interspecies music evolution of musical styles A clarinet was played along live with a singing male humpback whale off a boat off the coastof Maui. A four and a half minute passage of the duet is visually analyzed using a soundspectrogram to suggest that the whale may alter his song in response to what the clarinetplayed. This observation is consistent with the fact that humpback whales rapidly changetheir song during breeding season from week to week, with all the male whales singing thesame new song, even as it steadily evolves in a very short period of time. Interspecies musicthus demonstrates that a male humpback whale is able to quickly match new pitched, musicalsounds it has never heard before, a result different from most humpback whale playbackexperiments, where the whales have shown little interest in the sounds we play back to them,aside from summer feeding sounds played off-season in the winter. This result helps toconfirm the reigning theory that humpback whales have a culture of song that changessteadily over the course of a single season. 2008 artículo científico 1697-0101 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82201212 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=822 Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música application/pdf Sociedad de Etnomusicología Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música (España) Num.12 |
| title | To Wail With a Whale Anatomy of an Interspecies Duet |
| topic | Arte humpback whale Interspecies music evolution of musical styles |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82201212 |