Apologies Pulykamell and Terminus Est for urr, interrupting in the middle of your conversation (slow upload time from Japan), but I felt Fenris’s thread was drifting off course here…
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Neither: it evolved.
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aaaaahhh, I think I see what you mean. The basic melodic sounds were discovered, but it took the human element to turn it into music, very interesting.
Does that mean that a bird’s song is not “music”? Or that only the human ear/mind interprets it as music? **
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This is relevant to polyrhythmic music. I’ve been most interested in African music, and how it’s intertwined with Scots-Irish music in the US. One night, while out on the deck in Mississippi, in the heat of the summer, I listened to the cacophany of insect noise. Mighty loud in August. All of a sudden, I really heard what was going on. Cicadas, katydids, crickets and God knows what else were thrumming and sawing away on their wings, and it was layer upon layer of overwhelmingly intense rhythm. There was an ebb and flow, of course, they’re listening to each other and responding, and it struck me that it sounded a lot like African music I’d heard.
I’ve never seen a thesis on the insect influence on human music, but it’s logical that people would listen to it and be inspired to create their own.
As the technology of instrument making evolved, the intricacies of expression would follow.