Hominids' Cave Rave-Ups May Link Music And Speech

Reuters (UK) ^ | 5-31-2006 | Michael Roddy

[HiTech RedNeck]

The Singing Neanderthals theorizes, for example, that in the millennia before the emergence of anything like words or grammar, language and music were one and the same

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[RightWhale]

Isn’t music in some ways just an extension and exaggeration of speech?

It can be: some can speak in such a way. Much of what we call a 'good speech' is in delivery, which has to include rhythmic and tonal variation. Shakespeare should be done this way; the plays are written poetically which is no accident; he is still the Bard.

[SunkenCiv]

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