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Uso de notación musical y análisis musical en la comunicación animal: un estudio de caso sobre cachalotes
Mia Davitt1, Macrae Eckelberry1, Max Davitt1
1Independent Scholar, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|January 27, 2026
Resumen
La notación musical occidental puede analizar la comunicación de los cachalotes (Physeter macrocephalus). Las transcripciones de las codas mostraron similitudes con los ritmos humanos, lo que sugiere la notación musical.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Bioacústica
- Etnomusicología
- Comunicación animal
Sus antecedentes:
- La notación musical occidental es un sistema simbólico para representar parámetros musicales.
- Los elementos rítmicos en las vocalizaciones animales, como las codas de cachalote, son objeto de estudio.
- La aplicación de la notación musical a la comunicación no humana presenta desafíos en la interpretación de la percepción subjetiva.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Evaluar la aplicabilidad de la notación musical occidental para analizar las codas de cachalote.
- Comparar las características rítmicas de las codas de cachalote con la música humana y ritmos aleatorios.
- Explorar métodos de análisis musical para datos de comunicación animal.
Principales métodos:
- Transcripción de música humana, ritmos aleatorios y codas de cachalote a notación musical occidental.
- Análisis de transcripciones para estadísticas de precisión y complejidad.
- Aplicación de análisis de tempo y variación motívica a transcripciones de codas de cachalote.
Principales resultados:
- Las transcripciones de las codas de cachalote mostraron similitudes estadísticas en precisión y complejidad con muestras de ritmos humanos.
- Se demostraron dos modos de análisis musical, tempo y variación motívica, en las transcripciones de las codas.
- El estudio identificó métodos potenciales para reducir la subjetividad en la interpretación del compás para ritmos animales.
Conclusiones:
- La notación musical occidental puede ser una herramienta valiosa para analizar la comunicación animal, específicamente las codas de cachalote.
- Es necesario un mayor desarrollo de herramientas optimizadas para la aplicación a gran escala.
- Este enfoque ofrece nuevas vías para comprender la estructura rítmica en las vocalizaciones animales.
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