It certifies Ms. LuPone's place in the lineage of quirky international chanteuses like Lotte Lenya, Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf, who, like Ms. LuPone, conquered show business with forceful, outsize personalities while playing by their own musical rules.
Such anticipation, such singing along, is possible because one has knowledge, largely implicit, of musical "rules" (how a cadence must resolve, for instance) and a familiarity with particular musical conventions (the form of a sonata, or the repetition of a theme).
The authors suggest that the production of song in, say, Socorro mockingbirds and California marsh wrens, in wood thrushes, hermit thrushes and many other birds as well, follows rules that humans would recognize as musical, rules that in fact govern much human musical composition.
Then, musical rules are modeled and integrated, in order to make a consistent decision.
Medieval musical rules did not allow this particular dissonance.
The latter area was specifically associated with the processing of musical rules and violations of conventional chord successions [72], [80], [81].
