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Critical and Historical Essays / Lectures delivered at Columbia University by MacDowe Edward ( Author )
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01-07-2007
Click "free sample" to read the whole book no need to purchase. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell Darwin's theory that music had its origin "in the sounds made by the half-human progenitors of man during the season of courtship" seems for many reasons to be inadequate and untenable. A much more plausible explanation, it seems to me, is to be found in the theory of Theophrastus, in which the origin of music is attributed to the whole range of human emotion. When an animal utters a cry of joy or pain it expresses its emotions in more or less definite tones
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