• Question: who created music?

    Asked by leewwh to David, Helen, Ian, rhysphillips, Sarah on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Rhys Phillips

      Rhys Phillips answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Depends what you classify as music – I suspect people would describe the sounds made by animals millions of years ago as a sort of music.

    • Photo: Sarah Cook

      Sarah Cook answered on 19 Jun 2011:

      We all create music!

    • Photo: Ian van der Linde

      Ian van der Linde answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Not a person! Animals male music too, and these were around before we were. You might even argue that there is music in nature itself – in the structure of a plant, galaxy or molecule. Some people try to convert these things into noises, which can sound very rhythmical, just like our music.

    • Photo: Helen Fletcher

      Helen Fletcher answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      We think that that: Early Humans they may have used shells, horns banging to create noise. This could have been as a warning or to drive animals into an area as part of their hunting activities. Music probably developed from this activity.

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