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)

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)

MOOD INDUCTION PROCEDURE - Music can affect and control moods more effectively than other methods.

MANAGEMENT-ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK - Animals make sounds to manage  "their physical and social envireonments rather than to transmit information" (4)

EXPRESSIVE SIZE SYMBOLISM -  A small animal transmits a low frequency to "broadcast an impression of large size" (4)

Review of music and meaning by Meyer, view brief overview of terms