Rock,Rap,jazz,country;these are all genres we like but where did it all start?and how? well in the church many many many yrs. ago the monks did what was called a Gregorian chant. Though they could not speak they could participate in Gregorian chants and they would. It was very monosyllabic and it was music. that is where music began. I mean the type with actual notes etc. after that the slaves used to sing in the cotton fields all the spiritual hums to get them through their day. actually before either one of those things in biblical times the people used to sing songs of praise to the lord and they are now in the bible as Psalms. You mean music in general???
What ever its origins, it is shrouded in antiquity.
The earliest humans to feel emotion probably found a way to exress it using "organized sound". The first instruments may have come from hunting whistles - examples of these go back over 40,000 years. | 