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      • Music arose alongside language, both of which supposedly descend from a "shared precursor". The biologist Herbert Spencer was an important early proponent of this theory, as was the composer Richard Wagner, who termed the music and language's shared ancestor as "speech-music".
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  2. Feb 17, 2020 · Which came first, language or music? It’s not just a “chicken or the egg” type of question. Many linguists and theorists have debated this subject. For a long time the accepted norm stated that music appears “to be derived from language,” meaning that music is a subset of verbal communication.

  3. Sep 20, 2012 · Music did not emerge as a result of the emergence and development of language. Music came FIRST. The language part came later. Pulling together evidence from infant development, language...

  4. Music arose alongside language, both of which supposedly descend from a "shared precursor". The biologist Herbert Spencer was an important early proponent of this theory, as was the composer Richard Wagner, who termed the music and language's shared ancestor as "speech-music".

  5. Jan 29, 2021 · Planet Earth. Where Did Music Come From? Here Are the Leading Theories. Did humans evolve to sing and dance, or did we invent our musical pastimes? Scientists are still debating the origin of this universal behavior. By Cody Cottier. Jan 29, 2021 7:00 AMJan 29, 2021 10:37 AM. (Credit: Erikacarreraph/Shutterstock) Newsletter.

  6. Did Music Come Before Language? One prominent theory suggesting that music predates language is the "musical protolanguage hypothesis." This hypothesis posits that early humans communicated primarily through musical sounds and gestures before developing spoken language.

  7. Jun 20, 2017 · How Music and Instruments Began: A Brief Overview of the Origin and Entire Development of Music, from Its Earliest Stages. Jeremy Montagu * University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Music must first be defined and distinguished from speech, and from animal and bird cries.

  8. Mar 24, 2011 · Our brains are known to be wired to process both forms of communication, but from an evolutionary point of view did music come before language, or vice versa, or was there a common...

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