Monday, 30 November 2015

Evolution of Music


Evolution of Music

Music has been around for a lot longer than most of us may know, it has come an extremely long way from where it started. If we really think about it, music has been around since pre-historic times. It has been said that they used rocks and sticks to act as what we know now as drums, they were said to represent animal sounds in religious ceremonies. Unfortunately there was no notation or writings of this form of music, but it’s been said that the sounds can be heard in the music of South American Indians and African Natives that still believe in and participate in those ancient religious practices.

As for other instruments, it took some time for those to evolve. It’s been known that by 4000 BCE harps and flutes were created by the Egyptians, and by 3500 BCE clarinets with double reeds had been developed. Around 2500 BCE in Denmark an early form of a trumpet or now known as a “natural trumpet” was developed. It’s valve less and depends completely on lip manipulation to change the pitch. In 1500 BCE one of the most popular instruments was created by the Hittites. The guitar that was complete with frets that change the sound of the vibrating strings, same concept as today. 
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The evolution of guitars, same concept of design but still advancing more.

In 800 BCE the first piece of recorded music was recovered. It was a religious hymn and was written in cuneiform.  Cuneiform are wedge-shaped characters used in an ancient writing system developed by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, also in Persia, Ugarit. Mostly found impressed on clay tablets. It’s been said that cuneiform is not a form of musical notation. By 700 BCE there were records of songs that included vocal with instruments. In ancient Rome and Greece around 600 BCE a mathematician Pythagorus looked at and dissected music as a science developing a huge importance still used in modern music: the octave scale.  In 1000 CE Guido D’Arezzo made some very important improvements in music theory. He reworked standard notation by adding time signatures. He then invented solfege best known as: “do, re, mi, fa, so, la ti, do.” In 1100 CE a new movement began, the separation of church aspect from music. This was not an easy battle and the new “folk style” music was definitely looked down on and considered almost blasphemous by the church.
If you wish to learn more details about any of the information above, you can visit:         http://method-behind-the-music.com/history/history/

It has been believed that Thomas Edison was the first person to record sound or music but it has been found that the first “song” ever was recorded by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville nearly 20 years before Thomas Edison. He was a French printer, bookseller and also inventor of the phonautograph, which recorded sound waves of a voice and displayed them on a phonautogram which is a sheet of lines that recreated the pattern of the sounds. This piece was recorded on April 9th 1860 but the phonautograph could only record sounds not play them so it wasn’t heard until its rediscovery in 2008. 

Here's a video of the first ever song that was found.


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