The first music that humans made was song. All music arrived, the early Hindus believed, through the yoni, or birth canal, of Vedic chants. The Abra-hamic religions also based their music on the chanted word, often equating instruments with pagan frivolity. From the earliest known praise songs of the Sume-rian king Culgi of Ur, 3,000 years ago, singing voices have celebrated, seduced and bound tribes together. Yet this obvious truth cannot be proven. Until recording technology arrived, hard evidence was limited to images of open mouths on walls and pots, and medieval singing manuals. Luckily, this has not stopped musicologists from trying to sketch out a history of singing. John Potter, a singer formerly with the Hilliard Ensemble, and Neil Sorrell, a composer and expert in Asian music, approach this challenge with brio.
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机译：人类制作的第一首音乐是歌曲。早期的印度教徒相信，所有音乐都是通过吠陀圣歌的发声或出生运河到达的。亚伯拉罕教派的宗教也以受颂词为基础，通常将乐器等同于异教徒轻浮。从3,000年前苏美尔国王乌尔（Curgi of Ur）的最早赞美歌曲开始，歌唱的声音就将各个部落庆祝，勾引并捆绑在一起。然而，这个显而易见的事实无法得到证明。在记录技术到来之前，确凿的证据仅限于墙壁和花盆上张开嘴巴的图像以及中世纪的演唱手册。幸运的是，这并没有阻止音乐学家尝试勾勒出唱歌的历史。以前曾在Hilliard Ensemble演出的歌手John Potter和亚洲音乐的作曲家兼专家Neil Sorrell都用布里奥应对了这一挑战。
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