Opinion:Music is a Divine gift

Is Music a Divine Gift? Or Is It Learned Through Evolution? Are there divine reasons why we learn to make and love music?

Creation

When God created the world music accompanied creation:

"while the morning stars sang together and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?" - Job 38:7

Pentatonic scale

The first two phrases of the melody from Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna" are based on the major pentatonic scale

A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave in contrast to a heptatonic (seven note) scale such as the major scale and minor scale. Pentatonic scales are very common and are found all over the world.

At Wikipedia we read:

The ubiquity of pentatonic scales, specifically anhemitonic (without semitones) modes, can be attributed to the total lack of the most dissonant intervals between any pitches; there are neither any semitones (and therefore also no complementary major sevenths) nor any tritones. This means any pitches of such a scale may be played in any order or combination without clashing.

The last sentence is very important and deserves investigation: "without clashing". How can our brain perceive that a combination of notes is clashing? Where did our brain learn this? The pentatonic scale is recognized by people around the globe, from all cultures, as avoiding dissonance. This generates many questions:

• What combination of natural selection and random mutations can produce musical taste?
• What forces of natural selection built the musical taste of humans? What are the mechanisms?
• How does enjoyment of the pentatonic scale make us more able than those who do not appreciate it?
• What are the physical or chemical laws that generate the feeling of bad or good music in our ears?
• Why, when someone plays a note outside the scale, does that annoy our ears? Who taught our ears or our brain?