The Bare Necessities: Song Type as a Highly Diagnostic Feature in the Disney Sound

People categorize objects differently, depending on context, by comparing the features of the objects present. While structural alignment theory is useful in the exploration of categorization, it does not identify which essential features are required for musical category membership, like genres (Gentner and Markman 1994; 1997; 2005; Markman and Gentner 1993). Tversky (1977) addresses this by…