"In the beginning was the Word." To the ancients, the human voice possessed a sanctity of Spirit impossible to achieve through instruments crafted by the hand of man. Sound itself was God... and Voice, a direct path of communion with the Divine.
INSTRUMENTAL SCORES
"A 'score' is music that stays."
The quest to capture music in writing was, at first, a mystical indeavor; the realm of Shamans and holy men.