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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
The real question, evolutionarily speaking, is why are humans so musical?
We use speech to convey complex messages and thoughts, but are our musical roots to convey simpler, instinctive feelings like the birds and animals?
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I would offer my predictably philosophical arrogance and suggest that conscious beings (humans but let's not be so anthropic) are burdened by a great deal of ineffable meaning. As such, what may seem as simple and dumb 'feelings' as instantiated in language are actually far too complex for language to adequately express. Music, then, is a kind of lever to access at least a greater portion of this ineffable subjectivity.
I would hesitate that this is so comparable with birds and animals, though, as I don't know what their world is like.