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Thread #61943   Message #998414
Posted By: JohnInKansas
07-Aug-03 - 12:55 PM
Thread Name: Origins of music: new theory
Subject: RE: Origins of music: new theory
More likely the middle way forth:

Both music and speech (and grunts, whistles, and screetches) likely evolved from the same physical "fact" that sounds with certain fairly specific intervals are much easier to produce, at the same time or in close sequence, than "unrelated" intervals.

Or, if you're of other persuasion, "she made it that way to be nice to us."

John