First the Music, then the Words

First the Music, then the Words

First the Music, then the Words

2003 15mMovie

Lung fish and lions, nightingales and whales express themselves through sounds - they "sing". But humans alone have developed grammatically-structured language. Did the words of this language emerge individually? Or was there first a form of "language without meaning", that is, music?

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Alexander Kluge

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