interestsing article about music and it's origins

[Green_Manalishi]

Hi.
Here's an article i found by chance on the net, which i find interesting.

_http://www.sbras.ru/EMIS/journals/NNJ/Pont-v6n1.html

It doesn't go into details, just gives a few directions about the fact that the Pythagorean tradition is derived by an older Asiatic tradition, talks about the monochord, the discovery of a forgotten chromatic scale in China, architecture as frozen music, etc.


It gives an example of Australian Aborigines with a myth of their own that resembles the dancing gods of European mythology

...Another version of the origin of the Milky Way, current in Queensland, identifies it with the deeds of Priepriggie, an Orpheus-like hero, as famed for his songs and dances as for his hunting. When he sang, the people danced to the rhythm until they dropped with exhaustion, and declared that if Priepriggie wished he could make even the stars dance. One morning when he speared a flying fox, its companions descended upon him in vengeance, carrying him up to the sky. Unable to find him, his people decided to perform his dance, hoping for his return, but without him they could not capture the rhythm. Suddenly they heard a sound of singing in the sky. As the rhythm grew louder and more pronounced, the stars, hitherto randomly dispersed, began to dance and arrange themselves in time to Priepriggie's song. Thus the Milky Way serves as a reminder that the tribal hero should be celebrated with traditional songs and dancing' [Haynes et al. 1996, 13-14].[7]

Well, i just think it gives a few clues to the fact that our civilization most remote ancestors knew a great deal about music, patterns, dances, and so forth, and i seemed to be a very important thing to them. One wonders with this kind of info if music and sound in general wasn't a key element in the lost scientific knowledge of former high civilizations.