NUMBER ONE HITS!!!: A TRIBUTE TO THE BEST AMONG US!

Saturday, January 26, 2008

A TRIBUTE TO THE BEST AMONG US!

One has to be a real music enthusiast to sustain this blog which I am! This blog is paying tribute to the artists who have given us wonderful memories and moments because of the music they have played and sang. So enjoy browsing and listening to the number 1 hits going back since the 50's!

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ORIGIN OF MUSIC

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; and at some remote period of the earth's history all primeval mankind must have expressed its emotions in much the same manner. When this inarticulate speech developed into the use of certain sounds as symbols for emotions - emotions that otherwise would have been expressed by the natural sounds occasioned by them —then we have the beginnings of speech as distinguished from music, which is still the universal language. In other words, intellectual development begins with articulate speech, leaving music for the expression of the emotions.