To date, scientists, based on new evidence from archaeological and ethnographic studies have concluded that the formation of primitive society, music is very slow, it was not the kind of art which we now define the word. Ancient music cannot be separated from their everyday lives. Women lulling children, quietly singing, shepherds herd called sounds of horns, rhythmic cries helped fishermen pull the net and the boat ashore, terrifying cries of the soldiers plunged into the horror of enemies. Funeral rites accompanied by crying (even now in some places remain professional mourners). Returning soldiers with a victory celebrated a solemn feast with dancing, singing, beating out the rhythm with his hands, patting on the hollow-sounding and resounding subjects. These funny sounds, noises discordance people feel, emphasizing the solemnity, the significance of the event. Music, its rhythm, metric, melody, and repetition of uniform rotation tunes had a strong emotional effect on people, could make him cry or have fun, work hard and fight valiantly against the enemy. We cannot imagine what it was for the music: after all, even the musical art of the ancient Greeks is known mainly for the description. On the primitive music we judge by the finds of archaeologists (various whistles, bones with holes, sink), rock paintings. Some idea about the music of our ancestors gives the so-called syncretism (i.e., undivided, closely linked to the life processes of society) the art of modern tribes still under the laws of the primitive community.
Over time, the music began to find more stable forms, elaborated their laws, the logic of constructing melodies, use of various rhythms. From the large number of different sounds and noises people have learned to select music sounds, aware of their relationship in altitude and duration of their relationship with each other. Improved and primitive tools. In various African tribes still portrayed sounding bow, huge drums of a hollow tree trunk, and small drums from dried gourds, protozoa, flute, horns, and shells - prototypes of the modern string instruments, percussion, and wind instruments.
The independence of music gets much later - during the expansion of primitive society, when human artistic activity gradually separated from the practical. History, literature retained a variety of myths and legends about the potency of music. Recall captivating singing sirens, as described in the "Odyssey" of Homer, the ability of music to tame the wild beasts (the myth of Orpheus), cure of diseases.