Evolution of Music | 13.8 Billion BC - 2024 AD (Reupload)

The origin of sound chapter is kind of a joke, but I also wanted to show how music even became music at all. Cause we have music now, but there was also music of Neanderthals, and then music of the animals, and music of the waves, etc. Sounds came before music. I used the biblical theory for when humans became humans which estimates around 4004 BC, so I made it 4000 which would’ve been when the first HUMAN vocalization occurred. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a story with no traceable melody, so the melody you hear was made by modern researchers. The same applies with the Hymn of Lipit-Ishtar. Hurrian Hymn No. 6 is the first melody to be recovered, however not all of it was able to be restored. No full melody was restored until Seikilos Epitaph in 200 BC. Sāmaveda, Psalm 95, and The Iliad all don’t have a full discovered melody, so similar case as before. You Lan’s melody was never able to be fully recovered. Everything for the next couple thousand years or so is basically self explanatory, but it is worth noting that Clair de Lune was originally composed in 1890 and later revised in 1905 to the version we know today.