“…Although Lieberman's work has primarily addressed the passing of behaviors among family members, his theory could impact the exploration of children's musical play, considering its transgenerational passage through social relationships that include family members and age cohorts of children. It has been well-documented that children's musical play is an oral or aural phenomenon, passed on informally through oral transmission from child-to-child, or transgenerational passage (Campbell & Wiggins, 2013;Harwood, 1993Harwood, , 1998Marsh, 1999Marsh, , 2008. As documented by Sutton-Smith and Rosenberg (1961), children's musical play has changed in form, function, and meaning over the course of generations.…”