... of the unique character of singing and an insistence on the centrality of pleasure in musical experience. music and language singing voice social processes pleasure In Act I, Scene 5 of Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man ( 1958 ), a gaggle of petty, querulous bureaucrats experiences something...

...Psyche Loui Singing requires effortless and efficient use of auditory and motor systems that center around the perception and production of the human voice. Although perception and production are usually tightly coupled functions, occasional mismatches between the two systems inform us...

... and nonmusicians listened to pairs of single tones and scale-based melodies performed with the voice or the violin. The final note was varied in how well it was tuned to the prior context, and for each example, listeners judged whether the final note was intune or not. A strong vocal generosity effect was found...