Book: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Quotes of Book: Musicophilia: Tales of Music
In his book The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body, Steven Mithen takes this idea further, suggesting that music and language have a common origin, and that a sort of combined protomusic-cum-protolanguage was characteristic of the Neanderthal mind.62 This sort of singing language of meanings, without individual words as we understand them, he calls Hmmm {for holistic-mimetic-musical-multimodal}-and it depended, he speculates, on a conglomeration of isolated skills, including mimetic abilities and absolute pitch. book-quote
