I really believe that music - along with any other form of expression employed by humans - is just a means of making sense of the world and things within it. Speech was ordering sounds together, finding generally recognized combinations of said sounds, and making sense of them. Music is more complex ultimately than speech and language, however, because it frequently employs sounds both man-made and external, humans organizing these sounds outside of themselves to further expression.
I feel that it's certainly an adaptation, not so much an accident. Humans legitimately wanted to string things together in a way they perceived as being logical, utilizing this for their own expression to go beyond simple speech patterns and body language. It's ingenuitive, a way to express oneself where words fail, using external influences to convey the internal message - a means of more broad expression.
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It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken
Perhaps they're better left unsung
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