"Speaking" in monotone isn't really "pitch" is it? I'm referring to certain instances of rap I've heard, which is just rhythmic noises (percussive samples) with words spoken rhythmically (albeit, sometimes with very interesting rhythms) and no harmonic content to speak of. I'm sure that not all rap is like that, but the stuff that I was referring to definitely is.
Er....anything monotone has a pitch. "A" being the operative word. It has a single pitch, or tone. A mono pitch or tone if you will. Mono means one, not none.
I don't think that applies anymore. Society and civilization in general has gone downhill drastically ever since about 2010. Pretty much all predicted by Henry George in the 19th century:
Okay, interesting....but one guy in the past saying "the end will come" says nothing. I can find a guy in the past who will back up any argument I might make with the promise of an apocalypse, pretty much.
Change isn't the destruction of things its merely the change of things.
So your argument sounds to be that you not a fan of something modern....Well, as JimmyM earlier pointed out, if the music of the kids doesn't upset the older generation, they're doing it wrong. Epater le bourgeois and all that.
Civilization has been in a decline since time began.
Although I'm not sure about this either. All societies are prone to decline, laws of thermodynamics really, all systems head towards entropy. But that doesn't stop new kingdoms rising from the ashes and all that, Rome wasn't built in a day, but there was a time before Rome and Rome was built, ie, society was on the incline.
Society has evolved to stop hitting rocks against each other and we now have technology and communications etc. I don't think we can say we're in a position of decline from creating fire in a cave.
What has happened since the beginning of time, is change. Again change is not a decline, its just different.
I'm sure the first time rap music was heard by westerners they didn't feel it was music. Now, there's evidently debate at least so acceptance has grown.
I'm sure the first time gamelan music was heard, the colonial explorers didn't see it as music.
The first time the Romans encountered bagpipes, one probably thought they lacked rhythm and didn't think it was music.
When human-kind meets aliens for the first time we probably won't recognise their music as music, nor vice versa.
Over time, these attitudes have and will change.