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Crowverse is a hypothetical future evolution of Earth dominated by sapient flightless descendants of present-day crows. They have larger bodies and larger heads than our crows, which caused them to lose flight and gave them more bulky shoulders and a more upright stance.

Music

Avian music tends to emphasize harmony, rhythm and timbre much more than melody, which most in-universe sapient passerines consider a part of language instead. Much of avian music is based on chord-scale theory. In songs, the melody is considered part of the lyrics and is in the chord-scale the music is currently in (most passerine languages are tonal and some even require producing two notes at once). Avian music uses many kinds of inharmonic timbres (many more than human music) as well as harmonic ones.

• Most early recorded bird musical traditions are overtone singing and other timbral singing traditions demanding the various timbral nuances the avian syrinx is capable of.
• Primodality: In-universe, primodality is invented by a sapient bird; birds use primodality to impart colors to chord-scales and sung dyad phonemes.
• There is also a bird culture that uses soundscapes made by non-ji/inharmonic/pseudo-JI chords.