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<title>Music as a communicative medium - Ian Cross</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS (Management of) - a function performed by all music - "music's inability to express unambiguous meaning underwrites its powers to manage situations of social uncertainty" (2)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HONEST SIGNALLING- "revealing the the receiver qualities of the signaller that are relevant to the communicative situation" (3) " Music, as an expression of emotion, constitutes an 'honest signal' in revealing to a listener qualities of the music's producer that are necessarily concomitant on the nature of the signal" (3)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MOOD INDUCTION PROCEDURE - Music can affect and control moods more effectively than other methods.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MANAGEMENT-ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK - Animals make sounds to &lt;em&gt;manage&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;"their physical and social envireonments rather than to transmit information" (4)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;EXPRESSIVE SIZE SYMBOLISM -&amp;nbsp; A small animal transmits a low frequency to "broadcast an impression of large size" (4)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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