How did music begin?

So, let us explore the philosophical presupposition “in the beginning, God created music.”  Many church musicians do not start with this necessary philosophical basis.  On the contrary, many Christian musicians believe that there is no answer to the question, “How did music begin?”  They fail to recognize the evident answer found in Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created...”.  The fact that God created music is no joke, but rather it is a truism.

 

God truly created music.  Although the word created is used loosely by musicians, man never creates music.  God took nothing and made something--that something was music.  Music composers and arrangers only "construct"--they only are capable of "arranging" God's musical building blocks.  A contractor who builds something takes created materials and uses them to construct something.  He takes "something" and constructs with these materials.  He never takes "nothing and makes "something".  No matter how great  of a building he constructs, it is not a creation.