A musical genre can be considered “basic” if it cannot encompass another genre and is directly used by the majority of population within a music culture in folk transmission (Korobova, 2007; Lobanova, 2013; Nazaikinsky, 2013; Tsukkerman, 1964). Genres that “house” smaller genres (e.g...
there is evidence that fetuses distinguish music from environmental sounds during the last months of gestation, and newborn infants even remember music they were exposed to during gestation (Parncutt,2016). Acquisition of music occurs implicitly, even in the absence of formal training (Rohrmeier ...