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Professional items | World psychology | Zoomusicology is a field
of musicology and zoology or more specifically, zoosemiotics.
Zoomusicology is the study of the music of animals, or rather
the musical aspects of sound or communication produced and
received by animals. Zoomusicologist Dario Martinelli describes
the subject of zoomusicology as the "aesthetic use of sound
communication among animals." George Herzog (1941) asked, "do
animals have music?" François-Bernard Mâche's Musique, mythe,
nature, ou les Dauphins d'Arion (1983), includes a study of
"ornitho-musicology" using a technique of Nicolas Ruwet's
Langage, musique, poésie (1972), paradigmatic segmentation
analysis, shows that birdsongs are organized according to a
repetition-transformation principle. One purpose of the book was
to “begin to speak of animal musics other than with the
quotation marks” (Mâche 1992: 114), and he is credited by Dario
Martinelli with the creation of zoomusicology