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Melody, rhythm, textures, timbres and even harmony
- The basic elements of musical constructions including, melody, rhythm, textures, timbres and even harmony can be traced back thousands of years to the first bipedal humans. The inclusion of music into their lives was as important to them as it is to us now and has perhaps made a direct contribution to our mental and physical evolution too.
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Prehistoric music (previously called primitive music) is a term in the history of music for all music produced in preliterate cultures (prehistory), beginning somewhere in very late geological history. Prehistoric music is followed by ancient music in different parts of the world, but still exists in isolated areas.
Oct 24, 2013 · This book brings together evidence from these fields, and more, in investigating the evolutionary origins of our musical abilities, the nature of music, and the earliest archaeological evidence for musical activities amongst our ancestors.
- Iain Morley
Feb 14, 2018 · Prehistoric musical instruments enable rare and fascinating glimpses into an otherwise largely hidden culture, revealing more and more about our lineage’s ancient past.
- Anton Killin
- 2018
Mar 7, 2014 · Prehistoric musical instruments and sound-producers identified by Morley include bird-bone and ivory flutes, whistles (pierced reindeer-foreleg phalanges), purported bullroarers and rasps, and various forms of struck percussion (including strike-marked lithic and bone sources).
- Anton Killin
- anton.killin@vuw.ac.nz
- 2014
Interest in evolutionary perspectives on music has grown enormously since the turn of this century, when the research for this book began, both in terms of the evolutionary origins of music itself, and its relationship with the evolution of other human abilities.
This paper will critically discuss three traditional hypotheses of music evolution (music as an effect of sexual selection, a mechanism of social bonding, and a byproduct), as well as and two recent concepts of music evolution - music as a credible signal and Music and Social Bonding (MSB) hypothesis.
