Editing Polyphony (section)

==Antecedents==
Traditional (non-professional) polyphony has a wide, if uneven, distribution among the peoples of the world.<ref>{{Cite book
  | last = Jordania
  | first = Joseph
  | author-link = Joseph Jordania
  | title = [[Why do People Sing? Music in Human Evolution]]
  | publisher = Logos
  | year = 2011
  | pages = 13–37
  | isbn = 978-9941-401-86-2}}</ref> Most polyphonic regions of the world are in [[Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony|sub-Saharan Africa]], Europe and Oceania. Currently there are two contradictory approaches to the problem of the origins of vocal polyphony: the Cultural Model, and the Evolutionary Model.<ref>{{Cite book
  | last = Jordania
  | first = Joseph
  | author-link = Joseph Jordania
  | title = [[Why do People Sing? Music in Human Evolution]]
  | publisher = Logos
  | year = 2011
  | pages = 6o–70
  | isbn = 978-9941-401-86-2}}</ref> According to the Cultural Model, the origins of polyphony are connected to the development of human musical culture; polyphony came as the natural development of the primordial monophonic singing; therefore polyphonic traditions are bound to gradually replace monophonic traditions.<ref>[[Bruno Nettl]]. Polyphony in North American Indian music. Musical Quarterly, 1961, 47:354–62</ref> According to the Evolutionary Model, the origins of polyphonic singing are much deeper, and are connected to the earlier stages of human evolution; polyphony was an important part of a defence system of the hominids, and traditions of polyphony are gradually disappearing all over the world.<ref name=Jordania>{{cite book | title = Who Asked the First Question? The Origins of Human Choral Singing, Intelligence, Language and Speech | url = http://www.polyphony.ge/uploads/whoaskthefirst.pdf | author = Joseph Jordania | isbn = 99940-31-81-3 | year = 2006 | publisher = Logos | location = Tbilisi | author-link = Joseph Jordania | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120307121744/http://www.polyphony.ge/uploads/whoaskthefirst.pdf | archive-date = 7 March 2012}}</ref>{{rp|198–210}}