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Because the pleasure people derive from sounds has always been closely related to the pleasure they derive from making the sounds themselves, it is difficult to conceive of the origin of music as separate from an act of musical performance.
Her hand rests on an anvil and hammer, a reference to Pythagoras' ideas about the origin of music.
Another point to be noted in the legend of the origin of music is that Ling Lun went to the western border area of China to find the correct bamboo.
And while they need not have talked about music, many people think that music and speech are closely related.I've got the music in meAlthough the origin of speech is studied far more than the origin of music, the debate over when speech first became possible is still fierce.
Other explanations for the origin of music emphasise the obvious similarities between human song and language.
Also worth mentioning is an essay on the psychology of music in England (1885) and his book Die Anfänge der Musik (1911) where he discussed, in relation to Spencer and Darwin, the thesis of the linguistic origin of music.
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Her study, Music Psychology in Education, launched today, presents research on subjects including the origins of music and the development of musical appreciation in the womb.
Beat induction is a fundamental musical characteristic that, possibly, played a crucial role in the origins of music (Honing 2012).
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