Music And Ancient Music

1. How is the history of European and Arabic cultural contact reveal through musical characteristics in places such as Spain and Bulgaria?

Although art and music before the Enlightenment era provided an outlet for emotionally intense and dramatic performances which people looked to for entertainment, the Enlightenment period in Europe from the 16th to 18th centuries created a turning point for art and music by adding a level of complexity, a sense of balance, and by incorporating ideas from reality into the art piece which embellished the fine arts genre throughout Europe.

The Sumerians relied on music as part of their culture. They made their own instruments to create their music. The reasons for having music was for entertainment, religion purposes, and to fulfill their functions in life. No one obviously knows what the music sounded like, but knowing what instruments were dominant helps picture what it could've been. Strings were the most dominant of all the instruments they made, probably because they were easier based instruments to construct adding with the pleasure of the sound itself. Percussion was the weakest of the instruments because of its loudness. Horned instruments weren't very big because of their use in the military. Based on the instruments they made the most the type of music they liked was

Listening to this symphonic piece it seems to have many characteristics of a piece from the Classical Period in the Classical Era. I do not believe that this is a piece from the 20/21st Century because doesn't fall into the many subcategories of the music of that period. This piece could not be from the “atonal phase” where the music avoids what is considered a tonal center. It could not be considered to a be a piece from modernism, populism, serialism, experimentalism, minimalism, or post modernism as it is structured and follows many of the characteristics of the Classical Period and Era. Listening to the entire piece I noticed a variety of meter and tempo changes the piece seemed to be fast then slow then fast again. This made a very dramatic feeling as the music would slow then increase tempo

The earliest musical notation goes as far back to the ancient Greeks. Using the alphabet letters for notation. Using the letters to make as many notations to make musical meaning. Inverting the letters, placing them up right, lying on the right or left side with many combinations and variations was used to maintain a wide variety of notations. Based on what we know of the system from the treatises that old Greek philosophers, there were two sets

Among the Assyrians, it is to be imagined, music was more or less emotional in character. Among the Egyptians, it apparently shared of the nature of an occult philosophy. Among the Israelites, music was primarily an act of worship; and it is, therefore, to the Greeks that the credit of being the first to recognise that music was highly valuable as an educational resource.

Music Has been influencing people lives for decades, affecting peoples everyday lives for enjoyment or if it is making a career of it. Composers and music has been changing and evolving over time and in different places. It even dates back to the cavemen creating music or animals creating sounds that will give a feeling of happiness or sadness. Different cultures have materials around them in their every day life for self expression to create music. Music in the Church became very popular back in 450 and music has been evolving to the music that we listen to today in 2015 keeping some of the ideas from the past in our music, including three and six intervals. The middle ages was a time where music started in the churches evolving to the renaissance era, then the baroque, next to the classical era, and then

We as thinking beings are consistently obsessed with exploration and defining everything in the world. Constantly trying to answer why and how, we make a name a put a system to all the things we discover. Music is not special to this method of defining. Once we discovered the sound of music, it was decided that it must have a name or a way to be taught to others. Thus, musical notation was created.

Guido d’Arezzo is an Italian musical theorist in the medieval era. He studied at Pomposa but then left because his fellow monks resisted his musical invention. Guido was appointed by Theobald as a teacher in a cathedral school. He is known as the inventor of the modern musical notation that replaced Neumes. Neumes notation is different because earlier in life it only specified the high or low of a pitch. Neumes notation used to help musicians memorize music since music was largely an oral tradition. However, Guido invented four-lined musical staff. It was invented in approximately 1025. The four line musical staff consists of four lines and 5 spaces. The second and fourth lines are in different colors. The second line was often red to indicate

The same colors of music have been used to paint unique masterpieces throughout history. From Mozart to Michael Jackson and Beethoven to Bob Marley, the behaviors of sound– melodies, harmonies and chords– have been manipulated by individuals to communicate their soul’s message to the masses. The connections between music from the renaissance to contemporary tunes is quite surprising. The Beatles weren 't the first ones to talk about love, life struggles or heartache. These have been common themes of everyone’s lives since Adam and Eve. Bob Marley and Michael Jackson took their own personal experiences and paired it with the universal language of music to connect with people. Through a multitude of albums and singles, these two artists created timeless pieces of music, some of which are still present on the top charts. Although some disagree with the fact that their music is timeless, by comparing the music of Michael Jackson and Bob Marley to music that is known as timeless, one can see the direct correlation.

While blues and jazz are musically different, they play a similar role in the in the musical genres that is heard today. Today, music is divided into many genres such as hip-hop, easy listening, country, rock and roll or classic rock, etc. Pure blues or jazz is hardly thought of, as those two genres are not heard as often in today’s music.

Music, cultures and societies all around the world are highly diverse. However, a common challenge that each society faces is how to preserve their own identity – how to pass down the music cultures and traditions from generation to generation. It is important to realize that music cultures are not static. Evolution and being dynamic is part of what it means to be human. But from one generation to the next, societies around the world need to be able to pass down certain foundations for the next generation to learn and build upon. Chronologically, all music cultures started with a predominantly oral method of transmission. However, in the last few centuries, there has been a prominent shift towards written methods of transmission. Music and the way that it is transmitted from one generation to the next can tell us a lot, not only about the societies of the world but also the role that music plays in them. By analysing a shift in the transmission styles of music from oral to written, we can see music transform from being a transcendental experience to being a product for replication.

Classical composer Robert Schuman once said, "To send light into the darkness of men 's hearts-- such is the duty of the artist." Classical music is composed with such emotion it can leave an audience stricken with feelings after hearing a movement. The key is the emotion behind the music. It leaves listeners to wonder what was going on during that time in a composer’s life. Whether it was joyful and happy or depressing and dark, the audience wants to know the motive behind the composition of music. Classical radio stations are the perfect place to enjoy the music that started it all

To understand the foundations of music and its definition its important that you know its origin.The first signs of the emergence of music dates back to the early pre-historic era around 200,000 years ago when “Homo Sapiens” started to first appear in Africa. The most earliest forms of music were made from simple objects such as rocks and sticks that resembled modern drums and percussion instrument sounds. Usually the music was not for entertainment but more for religious purposes and customs among the aboriginal people of the time such as native Americans or African natives. Even now after over thousands and thousands of years of evolving and growing into the species that

Saturday night, the ambient noise from the audience gradually grew quiet as the lights dimmed and the conductor stepped up to the podium with his baton. With two taps on his stand and a whisk of his wrist, he drew the attention of everyone in the music hall. The conductor, Evan Feldman, and the UNC Symphonic and Woodwind Orchestra at Memorial Hall elegantly performed several classical pieces that was widely enjoyed by classical enthusiasts and family members. The concert supplied the audience with a night that at times, brought calmness and serenity, but at others gave abrupt aggression and force. Today, classical music is considered traditional and one of the earliest forms of music played in concert halls. Thus the way in which classical