MUSIC is not tangible. You can’t eat it, drink it or mate
with it. It doesn’t protect against the rain, wind or cold. It doesn’t vanquish
predators or mend broken bones. And yet humans have always prized music — or well
beyond prized, loved it.
In the modern age we spend great sums of money to attend
concerts, download music files, play instruments and listen to our favorite
artists whether we’re in a subway or salon. But even in Paleolithic times,
people invested significant time and effort to create music, as the discovery
of flutes carved from animal bones would suggest.