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Thread #45082   Message #687985
Posted By: CapriUni
11-Apr-02 - 01:25 PM
Thread Name: Very old music
Subject: RE: Very old music
Singing as the easiest form of music is, I think, one of the oldest pleasures of mankind.

Actually, Wilfried, one expert in the prgram I mentioned believes that singing evolved before speach -- that we communicated with others through musical phrases over long distances before we spoke verbal phrases at close range. If his theory is true, then singing isn't just one of the oldest pleasures, it is the oldest!

I like that Greek drinking song -- reminds me of a lot of the drinking songs currently in our own DT ;-).