revision preference src: Very little is known about primitive Christian music, notes Whitcomb, because like most of the ancient, it was unwritten. As songs passed from generation to generation, most grew very different from the original. <SEP> tgt: Very little is known about primitive Christian music, notes Whitcomb, because like most of the ancient, it was unwritten. As a result, as songs passed from generation to generation, they grew very different from the original.