When music arose on earth, we do not know exactly, but we know for certain that it was a very long time ago, many thousands of years ago.
We are blessed to hear the singing of birds, the murmur of a small cheerful stream, the sound of rain on the roofs of the house, menacing thunder.
Is this not music?

The ancient Greeks believed that music was bestowed on them by the gods.
Scientists, on the basis of archaeological and ethnographic research, have established that music appeared in primitive society.
The earliest music is thought to have involved singing and clapping, and then early humans probably began drumming by using sticks or other things found in nature. Some of the first-known musical instruments are flutes carved out of bones, like bear and wooly mammoth bones. Some of these bone instruments are from 45,000 years ago!
   We are blessed to hear the singing of birds, the murmur of a small cheerful stream, the sound of rain on the roofs of the house, menacing thunder. Is this not music?
   The prehistoric people tried to express their feelings in their very first song.
The first musical instrument used by humans was probably the voice. The human voice can make many different kinds of sounds. What was that song? About what? About joy? About grief? Imitation of the sounds that nature surrounded them? It was the very first music born on earth - the human voice with its song.
What was the music of the Stone Age people?