Music is universal - it is produced by all cultures. Some scientists believe that music came before speech and (1)....... as a development of making calls. In fact, there is (2) ...... theory that the earliest languages were chanted or sung rather than spoken. Indeed, in some cultures, music is a form of (3) ......... history. The Aboriginal Australians, for example, use music as a means to (4) ........... on histories of the land and spirits to the next generation.

New evidence suggested that music does not just satisfy the feel-good factor but it is also good for the brain. A study of intellectually (5) .......... children showed that they could recall more (6) ........ after it was given to them in a song than after it was read to them as story.
Researchers also report that people score better on a standard intelligence (7).........after listening to Mozart. The so-called “Mozart effect” has also been (8) ...... by findings that rats (9).... up on Mozart run faster through a complex network of paths or passages, known as a maze. Overall, it seems that in most instances people who suffer from any form of mental (10) ......benefit from listening to music.