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Originally Posted by tore
My point was not so much that babies don't sing, but more that the discussion might be more interesting if one could separate spoken language from music just for the sake of this discussion. Now I suspect explaining why I think so is gonna be a bit difficult and ultimately fruitless 
I personally am still of the opinion that music piggybacked language (noone's provided a good counter argument that I've seen) and so I personally don't find it weird or contradictory that language and music is mixed in our evolutionary history. But anyone making an argument that musical skill has started to become a distinct trait from language which is being selected for on it's own terms may find it useful to have a way to describe that music with a definition that does not automatically include normal language which, as I wrote, all adult healthy humans are capable of.
Anyways, I'll leave that discussion for them. |
I don't want to over my head here tore, but I do understand basically where your coming from. And I agree that there has to be a connection between Language and music itself. My guess would be that from the beginning, both language and music might have developed together at the same time. For how ever long, until language overtook making high pitched noises, etc. or however people first communicated between/with each other. For simple language is a trait that most all people possess (as you've already pointed out) compared to having the gift for music. But as far as a way to describe music with a definition that does not automatically include normal language, I don't know?
One thought that keeps coming to mind (as I try to make some kind of coherent paragraph that makes any sense at all)
Is "Rap", which is more of a form of language, other than singing?
I hope, that at least some of this makes sense.