What we know about music from the Genesis record-Part 2

       As we have have considered in previous posts, music in its beginning, is not the original concept of primitive mankind, but rather the concept of God who is alpha and omega the beginning and the end.  To assume anything less is presumptuous and has no basis  in or outside of Scripture.  God created sound or tone, the basis of music, and it has existed from the time of creation. As we have stated emphatically before, man did not evolve into existence, and likewise music did not evolve into existence. 
       The Genesis record does not major on the particulars of music in ancient times.  Frankly, the Genesis record establishes many other very important foundations that we will not discuss in these philosophical posts on music.
However, we are not completely left in the dark concerning the of the beginnings of music since we have the mention of Jubal and his music instruments early in the Genesis record.  By the time of Jacob (Genesis 31:27), we have record of songs, the frame drum translated in the KJV (toph 8596), and the lyre (kinnor 3658) translated harp in the KJV. 
        A review of Scripture (much of it later than the Genesis record) reveals that during Israel’s early period of nomadic life, instrumental music was well developed.  I will say gain that music's beginning can be traced back to creation, but most of its mention in the OT will be recorded after the Book of Genesis.  You may wonder what I am trying to establish philosophically by nailing down the facts of music's beginnings in God's creative acts and its early mention in Genesis. A simple answer is, at this point, that there are ancient landmarks of musicing to be found in early Scripture.