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From a musical protolanguage to rhythm and tonality
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[eng] Music and language are two faculties that have only evolved in humans, and by mutual interaction.
As Darwin (1871) suggested, before speaking, our ancestors were able to sing in a way structurally
and functionally similar to what birds do. At that stage, a musical protolanguage with beat yielded a
common basis for music and language. Hierarchical recursion along with grammar and lexical
meaning joined this musical protolanguage and gave rise to language. Linguistic recursion, in turn,
made meter possible. Rhythm therefore would have preceded tonality. Subsequently, in parallel to
the emergence of grammar, harmony and tonality were added to the meter. That beat is more
primitive than meter is suggested by the fact that some animals perceive but do not externalize it.
Crucially, they are all vocal learners. Externalization, either in musical rhythm or language, requires a
complex social behaviour, which for rhythm is already present in the drumming behaviour of certain
primates. The role of vocalizations, in turn, goes even further: their harmonic spectrum underpinned
the tones of our musical scales. Thus, driven to a large extent by language, music has turned out to be
as we know it nowadays.
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Treballs Finals del Màster en Ciència Cognitiva i Llenguatge, Facultat de Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2014-2015, Tutora: Joana Rosselló Ximenes
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CELMA MIRALLES, Alexandre. From a musical protolanguage to rhythm and tonality. [consulta: 6 de desembre de 2025]. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/116844]