These utterances were, at first, like the singing of birds and the roaring of many animals and the crooning of babies, exclamative, not communicative-that is, they came forth from an inner craving of the individual without any thought of any fellow-creatures. When we say that speech originated in song, what we mean is merely that our comparatively monotonous spoken language and our highly developed vocal music are differentiations of primitive utterances, which had more in them of the latter than of the former. But of course we must not imagine that "singing" means exactly the same thing here as in a modern concert hall. Men sang out their feelings long before they were able to speak their thoughts. Voice is sounding breath, the audible sign of life. A Brief History of Singing ANTIQUITY TO 1590
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