2024-08-26 10:26:12
You can immediately tell if the other person is singing or talking. Why exactly? Researchers have now discovered this by singing songs from their homeland. They discovered that there are universal laws that apply to all music. There is an important reason for this.
Globally, speech and music differ in many characteristics across languages and language families. Within the language, the sound of music is higher than when we speak, a sound is longer on average, and the pace of speech is reduced, according to a large international research group. in the journal “Scientific Advances” write.
The premise to the study is that everyone can understand the difference between speaking and singing in their own language. General, internationally applicable principles, however, are not clear.
“All known human societies have music and language,” the study said. “However, the similarities and differences between music, speech and instrumental music have not been compared at the international level.”
To do this, each researcher chooses a song of their area. As a rule, this is music in the native language of the speaker. In total, the recordings cover 55 different languages and dialects. In addition, other existing records are included in the evaluation.
Patrick Savage’s music research group of the University of Auckland in New Zealand is made up of experts in ethnomusicology, music theory, linguistics and evolutionary biology, among others.
Scientists follow a precise procedure in their work. Each of them has to make four different recordings: the song written, the instrumental version of it, the songs spoken and the recorded description of what was written, which is included in the study as an example of normal speaking. The recordings were analyzed for various acoustic features.
“The International Relations Between Music and Language”
The Savage group found that when they sing, the street is louder and the temple is slower than when they speak. In addition, ads are generally held longer. However, the researchers did not find a general difference in the so-called timbre brightness and the distance between the following tones in terms of pitch.
“Our results provide the strongest evidence yet that there are ‘universal statistical’ relationships between music and language around the world,” the research team wrote. However, it is not the case that each of the known variations can be found in every single language in the world. For example, a Kiswahili speaker from the research group sang with a deeper voice than he spoke. On average, a Japanese speaker uses more space when speaking than when singing.
Savage suggests that songs are more accurate and predictable than words because they can be combined and work to interact. “Careful, consistent, predictable melodies make it easy for us to sing together in large groups,” he said, as a quote.
“All over the world, people use their voices to speak and sing, even if the actual ways of speaking and singing are very different in different cultures,” writes Daniela Collector from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt Main in one also in “Scientific Advances” published comment.
The cross-cultural patterns found in the study reinforce the thesis that language and music are the same solutions to similar communication challenges in the world, explains Alakojyo.
High pitches can, for example, be used to show effort, excitement and emotion in songs, the researcher said. “A word spoken in this way will be tiresome.”
According to the Collector, further studies with more participants, not all of whom are researchers themselves, are needed to confirm the Savage group’s results. In addition, more songs, more styles and more genres will have to be included.
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