The evolutionary nature of musical meaning

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Long-term musical group interaction has a positive influence on empathy in children (2013, background): “…biological significance that provide a foundation for “natural meaning” in music, thus affording a sense of mutual “honesty” to interacting individuals (Cross, 2009); floating intentionality (semantic indeterminacy), which substantially distinguishes musical communication from the explicitness…”
Music and communication in music psychology (2014, background): “We can interpret this immediacy as arising from a tendency to experience the acoustical signals entailed by the music as though there were a necessary causal connection between the signals’ structure and the affective and motivational states of their producers (see Cross, 2008, 2009).”
How Moving Together Binds Us Together: The Social Consequences of Interpersonal Entrainment and Group Processes (2019, background): “In relation to social affiliation, Cross et al. (2016) also found no change in affiliation scores within pairs following IPE, despite seeing greater cooperation compared with controls. Cross et al. (2017) found significant increases in affiliation amongst larger groups following imagined IPE, which ”