Musical Diversity in India: A Preliminary Computational Study Using Cantometrics

There will be significant musical variation within societies in India.

Variation explained at this level was substantial (73.46%). No significance statistics were reported.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
AMOVA	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Song Complexity	Association	Music
Societies	Association	Identification, Location

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Passmore, Sam	2024	Musical traditions will show spatial autocorrelation, such that geographically closer societies are more musically similar than distant ones.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Daikoku, Hideo	2020	There will be significant musical variation within language families and between societies in India.	`UNKNOWN`	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Rzeszutek, Tom	2012	Within-population musical variability will be greater than between-population variability (1607).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ayres, Barbara	1968	". . . songs in societies where infant stress is practiced will be characterized by more forceful accent than songs in societies where infant stress is absent" (213).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ayres, Barbara	1968	". . . songs from societies where infant stress is present would be characterized by wider range than songs from societies where stress is absent" (213).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author