Music History

Introduction
 Origins of Music 

Music origins are diffucult to determine. Music could have been made anytime long ago. Animals, especially humans, could have started it at any time by clapping, singing, or using materials of any kind to make noise and instruments. It is quite a big mystery to this day.

Musical Instruments and Music Itself
 The Oldest Musical Instrument 

When tracing back many years ago, researchers have said that the oldest musical instrument is the flute. They have located this ancient flute from a cave in south Germany. Not only did they discover this, but they even discovered that the flute had been made out of mammoth ivory and bird bones. As we continue researching, we will definitely understand the origins of music.

 Ancient Musical Instruments 

Many centuries ago, people had known about music. This includes Greece, Egypt, and more civilizations at the time. These civilizations may have even had similar or different instruments and/or reasons to play music.

Taking a look in Ancient Greece is a good source for ancient ways of music. In Ancient Greece, music was important for the people. In fact, they used music to honor the gods, more specifically, Apollo. However, in order to honor the gods, they needed instruments to make wonderful sounds. According to our history, people in Ancient Greece used pipes, lyres, drums, and cymbals. (Pipes include: recorders, flutes, etc.) The most improatnt instruments were the lyres and flutes.

Similar to Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt had used drums and flutes. They even had a goddess for music, Hathor. However, unlike Greece at the time, they used rattles, castanets, and people. Though they had lots of instruments, people were allowed to join in the fun by clapping and singing. This comes to show that even in the ancient times, humans had similar combined with different ways of music.

 Modern Musical Instruments and Modern Music 

Today, music is everywhere. From North America to Europe, from Asia to Australia, everywhere you go, you will find some type of music. Also, now you probably can't even name and count every single instrument that exists. It's amazing how music is still alive in our world!

In ancient times, they had to make the instruments by hand. It was really hard to make up a new and complex instrument in those times. Now, we have machines, computers, electricity, and more devices that can make music. Thanks to machines, we can make more instruments. Thanks to computers, we have SFX which can help in the making of music. With electricity, we can even use electric guitars to make more cool and loud noises. Obviously, this means that we can make more music. It is definitely true that many of our devices are musical instruments.

Now, with our technology, music is more lively and different today. It is right to say that we have improved and are right to continue in music.

People in Music History
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Music Traditions
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Outro to Music History
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