The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #61943   Message #998700
Posted By: GUEST,Q
07-Aug-03 - 09:24 PM
Thread Name: Origins of music: new theory
Subject: RE: Origins of music: new theory
Guest (above) with his remarks about beating femurs and sticks on objects is closer to what is in my racial memory, except that other objects besides logs were sounded. The sound of the thunk on the skulls of the enemy my ancestors ate compared with the thunk on the head of a recalcitrant female may have contributed to the development of low notes....