Note: Slavs preserved Old Europe a lot longer. Basque music. Choral mixed sex. Free intermingling of adolescents and then pairing off into monogamous couples. Finn, Hungarian all solo. Complementary relationships in inheritance, man or woman. Particularly the woman stays put, takes care of small animals, milking. Man does larger farming around them. Men women have different tasks and do them at the same time. Women do not work in fields until grain culture. Very old, terraced garden cultures in Africa. This is what the cattle people in Africa have destroyed. Impact of drying of Sahara on Europe. Hypothetical musical form of herding culture, long, complicated monotonous songs. Big stories about herds (who raided whom), cf. old melodies of Spain and Italy. Grain cultures take a big risk because payoff big but if crop fails everyone goes hungry. Hunger, anxiety are themes in grain cultures. Grain fields and village connected with it are under protection of a chieftain. In Japan and elsewhere (Mnog Gar) rice cultures are recent impositions over something else.