I
have always told my college students that the word “evolved is not the proper
word to use when speaking of the development of music over the centuries. The word evolved has come to connote a
musical “big bang” rather than the development of a God created art form. An evolutionary process from “musical ameba”
to major symphony is a naive notion rather than a fact grounded in our
knowledge of ancient world music. The
recent deciphering of ancient music by the University of Berkley Department of Assyriology
(Kilmer et. al.) and the deciphering of the Bible te’amim (Suzanne
Haik-Vantoura) has proven such notions to be entirely false.
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