Where Did Music Come From?

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When you’re in the car singing along to your favorite song or you’re at the store buying food and a song start playing over the radio you don’t stop and think about how or where music came to be. Not a lot of people know who first thought music or who produced the first song. Where did music come from? There are many scholars from around the world who are trying to figure out what the first type of music was and where it came from. A group of researchers found a flute in 2009 that was made from a bone of a vulture, and appeared to be 35,000 to 40,000 years old. It also appeared to be possibly invented by the Neanderthals who lived during the time period when the flute was created. Finding the flute was very rare and scholars have found more

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