Music and Meaning

Music is omnipresent in the cultural life of human societies and has most probably been so since our first cultures developed. According to recent research, it may thus have preceded language. As a vocal, instrumental, and choreographic technique — through collective rhythmic musicking, singing and dancing — it may have paved the way for language in the linguistic sense. Remarkably, both music and language are based on the particulate principle (also called generativity: unlimited pattern div..