Subject: Re: Interesting idea - Musical Tuning and Human Biology - today's

tuning@yahoogroups.com wrote:

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All!
It is interesting to note how still many African instruments are understood as language and also how their
scales are anything but chromatic scales. The balophones by coincidence , although somewhat pent or heptatonic, the
pentatonic ones often hav different intervals in the lower rangd, In the upper the scale changes which i understand
reflect the nature of how our expression changes as we get excited and use different intonation with our voice.
possibly Justin has some observations on other tonal languages as found in the far east.?

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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:58:53 +0100 (BST)
> From: "Mark Gould" <mark.gould@argonet.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Interesting idea - Musical Tuning and Human Biology - today's
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> Given recent anthropological studies of why Humans 'learnt to speak', the
> suggestion is that hominids were great 'howlers' or 'singers', and that
> speech is merely a gradual complexification of 'singing'.
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> Therefore, it seems reasonable that speech should retain elements of
> pitches.
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> Music is older than speech would be my hypothesis based on current thinking.
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> Mark Gould
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