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Originally Posted by GeneticKiss
I dunno, I think it might be a bit of a stretch to think of birdsongs in the same sense as music created by humans. Sure, birdsongs have melody but often neither a whole lot of rhythm nor structure, and they often sound pretty alike (I mean the same kind of bird, not among other species of bird).
I know a lot of bands put out songs/albums that sound very much the same, but still...
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you are thinking of music to mathematically, or quantitatively, not not quality-wise. Surely you can appreciate to delight and melody of a bird song..
Evolutionary scientists say that the evolution of the human vocal chords from the more primitive structures of other primates came about through singing. They theorize that we were singing before we ever spoke a word and that our speech evolved from song. Speech is communication of thoughts, ideas whether simple or complex, and language is designed to convey complex ideas and opinions.. however, music seems to convey something so simple it is deeply complex. The feelings of the human experience of music often have no language in words to describe, they are simply felt, and this is what attracts humans almost universally to music. Further, our language of words is full of music, rhythm and melody in our speech patterns, which we use to convey unspoken messages of mood, tense and feeling the emphasize our words.
Another question to this thread then, is that are these feelings behind our music human or animal? Are they part of the soul (ie, human), or part of the mechanics of the evolution of the brain (ie, animal)? For that matter, is there even such a distinction to begin with, or is the music of animals equally soulful? If anything, the point made about bird songs lacking math like sheet music, is their improvisational music more soulful then the calculations of a composer who writes with out even touching in instrument sometimes?