How was music created? How did it start? How does it affect people lives? What do people use it for? Well the first instrument to be “invented” is the human voice until someone used thigh bones of a bear in Neanderthal. That was over 50,000 years ago. In today’s society there are so many instruments that people can choose from to create music. There’s the saxophone, guitar, drums and even the triangle. Also, people will use different objects to create music. You will find people playing hands, buckets, tapping their feet; pretty much anything that can create a sound can be used to make music.
The Old Testament, found in the Bible, makes a ton of references to music especially after the Jewish people escaped servitude in Egypt and crossed the …show more content…
Ancient Greece is really the first generation that changed the tone and culture of traditional music from Jewish people and the Christian churches. They created their own patterns of music and found ways to incorporate it into social gatherings. Since a lot of Ancient Greece’s music was turned into plays, the music, which was created, in the Ancient Greece era relied on the memorization and improvisations of choruses. These plays would have a cast of both men and women but, mainly men. The music all of these choruses learn first is the music from the church. Eventually music made its way into the Olympic games where the victors of the games would be commemorated by ode or a song. Ancient Greece brought music to social events like weddings, marches, funerals, and other gatherings. Can you imagine a wedding without music? That would be insane! Mostly everything today has music incorporated into it in some way or form. Even war has music involved. Once Greece fell to the Roman Empire, the Roman Empire took what Ancient Greece had and adapted it to their culture. Before the Roman Empire took over Greece, the Romans never notated or left any kind marks of their musical history. The Roman Empire brought with them new musical instruments like the flute and pipes which had a peaceful harmony’s. However, when the Roman Empire fell, all the traditional music that was created from the Jewish people to the churches and from the Greeks to the Romans, had
The Old Testament, found in the Bible, makes a ton of references to music especially after the Jewish people escaped servitude in Egypt and crossed the …show more content…
Ancient Greece is really the first generation that changed the tone and culture of traditional music from Jewish people and the Christian churches. They created their own patterns of music and found ways to incorporate it into social gatherings. Since a lot of Ancient Greece’s music was turned into plays, the music, which was created, in the Ancient Greece era relied on the memorization and improvisations of choruses. These plays would have a cast of both men and women but, mainly men. The music all of these choruses learn first is the music from the church. Eventually music made its way into the Olympic games where the victors of the games would be commemorated by ode or a song. Ancient Greece brought music to social events like weddings, marches, funerals, and other gatherings. Can you imagine a wedding without music? That would be insane! Mostly everything today has music incorporated into it in some way or form. Even war has music involved. Once Greece fell to the Roman Empire, the Roman Empire took what Ancient Greece had and adapted it to their culture. Before the Roman Empire took over Greece, the Romans never notated or left any kind marks of their musical history. The Roman Empire brought with them new musical instruments like the flute and pipes which had a peaceful harmony’s. However, when the Roman Empire fell, all the traditional music that was created from the Jewish people to the churches and from the Greeks to the Romans, had