Re: The difficulty of the Beautiful?

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005, John Wilkins <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
>
>> I wonder how long music has been part of our heritage.
>>
> Bill Benzon, in his _Beethoven's Anvil_, says that it is primitive,
> due to sexual selection for social coordination.

Does he make a convincing argument?

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it predated language, or even
was "ancestral" to language.

Along that line of thought, I've wondered at times whether our
earliest language might have been more like poetry than like prose
speech.

--
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas

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