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How did music first began? What did the first type of music sound like? Music is all around us and is considered an large part of our lives. Across the globe music has existed in every culture. Yet, we do not stop to think about how music came to occupy this postion. Who first thought of music? Who produced the first melodie and songs? How did music became and developed to be such an important aspect of our lives? The search for the answer of these questions takes us back thousands of years into the past. Scholars across the globe are trying to learn more information about the first types of music. Examples are the instruments that created and made the first types of music, and the types of role music played for the early humans. In 2009, an primitive flute was discovered by a group of researchers. The primitive flute is made from the hollow bone from an griffon vulture, and the primitive flute is thought to be 35,000 to 40,000 years old. The primitive flute is thought to be possibly made from the Neantherdals, because the Neantherdals lived at this time period where the primitive flute was found in Germany. The primitive flute has five air holes along the hollow tube, and scholars believe that the primitive flute is capable of playing complex melodies. The song Star Bangle Banner was played when an experimental archaelogist created an reproduction of the primitive flute. In the preliterate cultures, or in other words cultures written without language had prehistoric, primitive, music that includes all the types of music that was created by them.{Meaning the preliterate cultures}. Prehistoric music is the first type of music that was created or played. Even though humans were able to have access to these ancient instruments, the music of the early humans also the world too are considered still as an mystery to us. When the prehistoric humans left no written record for us, we only have less knowledge of the early production of early music than we do about the facts of early music. What we do have knowledge of is that archaelogist researchers and the other types of evidence disovered cave paintings. Archaemusicology is the use of the archaelogical techniques in the study of music. This area of study discovered and analyzed evidence that relates to music. Scholars have tried to trace early forms of music to see how they have influenced later forms of music. There is an number of theories of how music developed. Some scholars have argued that music developed from the natural sounds and rhythm of early cultures. Which might include everything from bird calls to a persons heartbeat. As humans, we try to mimic the sounds that we hear and sense around us. Because of this it is natural for the early humans to mimic the sounds that they sense and hear around them too. Examples are the chirp of an insect or an roar of an animal. If this had been the case, then early music could have been developed from the mimicking of sounds. Early music isn't only used to mimick sounds, but also to create the reactions from animals during hunting {either calling the animal towards them or getting them to respond to their own calls}. Since prehistoric people didn't have the instruments we have today, they created music in other ways. Voices is likely one of these examples, because archaelogist discovered and found that prehistoric people may have placed marks on the walls and the ceilings of some caves in order to note special acoustics in the cave. An example would be, Pech Merle which is a French cave that is covered in red dots on the ceiling that notable of these special acoustics spots in the cave. In the French cave there are similar red dots on the walls on the cave, and these spots seem to indicate where the sound would best echo and carry throughout the cave. It may have been possible that prehistoric people used their voices or other items to fill the cave with sound. Some of the studies that are similar to the French cave has suggested cave paintings, in addition to the marks of the paintings like the red dots, appears at places in the cave where the natural echo is strong. Although the earliest music may have been created from voices, it is likely that prehistoric people created rhythm or beats by hitting objects together, which may have been anything such as clapping your hands together to hitting a piece of wood on a rock. Humans had used tools from about 100,000 years ago, which makes it likely that the prehistoric humans have inspired the similar sounds in music. Also there is an indication that prehistoric humans may have created rhythm and sounds using created instruments. While these prehistoric instruments may have been primitive compared to the instruments today, these prehistoric instruments fulfills the same purposes that instruments do in our lives. Until recently at the time, when scholars believed that voices from the prehistoric humans and the early drums were the primary instrument that was used in prehistoric times. In the late 1990s, scholars discovered a flutelike artifact that was created from the bone of a cave bear. The flutelike artifact created from the bone of a cave bear is the Divje Babe flute that was found in Slovenia and it appears to date back about 50,000 years ago. The Divje Babe flutelike artifact had several holes, and the player could vary the tone of the sound when blowing air through the instrument.

Flutes like the Divje Babe represents some of the first musical instruments. Most of the prehistoric flutes was uncovered during early periods of human history that are made of bones that are hollowed out to allow air to pass through. The simplest form of these prehistoric instruments, is when someone blows air into one end, producing a musical sound as the air passes through and exits the instrument at the other end. More complex forms of these prehistoric instruments, resembles the modern day recorders and flutes, with holes on the top or the sides of the bone. This allowed humans to create different tones by covering one end or more of the holes when they blew air into the instrument.

Over time, people are creating and improvising newer forms of music and musical instruments. The evolution of musical instruments may appear slow but steady. Such as the prehistoric flutes, humanly created sounds, prehistoric trumpets, and prehistoric harps. The production of ancient music was produced from the prehistoric literate societies. In 4000 BCE, humans developed and created written languages, and the ancient music belongs to those societies that lived or after this time. When humans developed and created written languages it was not developed in the same rate or in the same way in every place. Since societies were seperated {or isolated from each other} at this time, people were not able to learn about the new musical instruments or the new pitches from from other cultures for quite some time. Because of this, prehistoric music evolved slowly in one place, such as the information of musical societies from other cultures was passed along during trade or migration. The difference between prehistoric music and ancient music is that overtime prehistoric music became more standarized. Meaning rather than just random sounds or tones, ancient music had featured deliberate patterns and the repetition of these deliberate patterns within a piece of music. Although when ancient music was not written down until later on, we are not sure how the music sounded, and the ancient music is described as standardized. At the time ancient societies developed and made their own types of music and musical instruments. Ancient Egypt is known for its advances in society and technologies, such as the pyramids and Ancient Egypts hieroglyphics. At the time, the Ancient Egyptians had made a number of advances and changes of the music that came before them. Ancient Egyptians, and many other societies during this time had believed that music is an gift for humans from the gods. In the temples of Ancient Egypt, music was played as an part of religous life. Archealogist discovered murals and other artworks that depicts musicians and individuals dancing to music. Scholars are unsure about how the ancient music sounded like during early Egyptian society, but the evidence that was discovered by archaelogist and scholars has found that Egyptian music uses a five scale tone, and is believed they used male and female voices in their works. The Egyptians created and developed an number of different instruments that has been discovered. In 4000 BCE, lutes and heart strings are played in Egyptian societies. Other types of instruments that Egyptians developed includes lyres, clarinets, tambourines, trumpets, and harps. Some of the Egyptians instruments that were discovered were adorned with precious metals such as gold, silver, and lapis lazuli. Particulary harps were adorned within these metals. In Mesopotamia {which is current day Iraq and the surrounding area}, musical scales and ancient musical instruments are discovered by archaelogist. In different parts of Mesopotamia, excavations had lend to the credence of the idea that the ancient world had an form of musical notation. The musical notation that was discovered is significant, because of the evidence that the musical notation had the ability to write a song or an musical piece so the musical notation is played the same way. In 2000 BCE, in Nippur the cuneiform tablet is discovered. The cuneiform seems to give instructions on performing an particular piece of music. This cuneiform musical notation is fragmentary when it was discovered, and the interpretation is controversial, which makes it one of the first musical notation. In the 1950s, at Ugarit {in present day Syria}, the Hurrian song is discovered as an fragmentary relic, and is an nearly complete example of notated music. The Hurrian song is an nearly complete song that is written down in cuneiform in clay tablets, and one of the tablets is noted as an song, and the musical notation appears to be written down in nine stringed lyre. In Mesopotamia, excavations in numerous sites has appeared as large role in Mesopotamia lives. An example is that art during this ancient time, has featured people playing lyres, and music during important life events. Examples of music played during important life events are marriages, and royal family births. These instruments are used for the creation of lyres {stringed instruments}, harps, red pipes, lupes {stringed instruments with a neck}, and drums. The evidence of these instruments indicates that music is central to religion and religous rites for many Mesopotamian groups. In 18000 BCE, another Mesopotamina culture called the Babylonians used psalms and hyms during their religous services, which included two different voices that alternated in their chants. In India, archealogist discovered and found that music and instruments in the Indus Valley {which is present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northwest India}. In the Indus Valley civilizations, excavations discovered both stringed instruments, and seven holed flutes. The collection of hyms that was used in ancient times in religous rituals is the Samaveda.

In ancient India the imporantance of music is best seen through the Natya Shastra. The Natya Shastra is a written discourse featuring performance on arts, which includes dance, music, and stage performances. The Natya Shastra is believed to be written down at the time between 200 BCE and 200 CE, from Bharata, a prominent sage. The treatsie list the different types of instruments made and discovered in India, and the popular musical forms at thsi time. Some people argued that the document represented the foundation of the music and other fine arts for India, which it contains much information about the ancient music. In ancient Greece, classical art has its foundations. The foundations of classical music has likely stemmed from ancient Greece. Ancient Greece approached music in similar ways, as did other ancient societies. They also approached music in new and innovative ways. The Greeks believed that music came from the gods, particulary from the god Apollo, and they believed that music is able to influence the thoughts and behaviors of humans. In ancient Greece, the Greeks emphasized science and mathematics. Meaning the Greeks had a strong interest in studying and explaining the world around them. The Greeks searched for patterns and developed formulas so they could describe the patterns they created. Some of the Greeks discoveries are used in science and mathematics today, such as the concepts of Pythagoras theoem on the sides of an right triangle. The Greeks had been interested in symatically studying the world around them, which extended to symetically studying music. The Pythagoras studied music too, particulary studying the relationships between music intervals. The famous Greek philsopher Aristole took Pythagoras findings and laid some of the foundation of music theory. Music theory is the study of how musicians made music. Aristole argues the difference in music, which is whether in the melody or rhythm has varying effects on people and that music should include education of the youth because of its potentional postive effects. The various descriptions of the music in ancient Greeks also appeared to be monophonic. Monophonic means to have a single melody with no accompanient. Researchers discovered that ancient Greeks music has about thirty different melodies, which has been discovered on stones, fragments on papyrus, which was used as paper during this time. The melodies of monophorics is appearing in one of several musical forms. Much of the ancient Greeks music is memorized rather than written down, which makes it limited to the archaelogist examples of what we can find to give us an indication of what the music was like during this time. One of the forms of music is lyric poetry. Lyric poetry is music including poems by instrumental music, often lyre {hence the term lyric}. The musical form lyric poetry tells us songs of love and victory. Choruses are used during ceremonies and rituals, weddings, and funerals too. Vocal music is held in higher esteem than pure instrumental music because philosophers such as Aristole argues that only the creatures with souls had voices, which distinguises tha voice is appreciated as an element that distinguishes the differnce between animal and spirits. The Epitah of Seikilos is one of the famous ancient Greek songs that survived to this present day, and is believed to date back to the first century CE. The song is one of the oldest complete musical compositions that has found. The translated song lyrics follows: "As long as you live, be happy: do not grieve at all. Lifes span is short; time exacts the final reckoning." Over time the ancient empires and civilizations collapsed or meaning they were conquered by others, which makes music moved closer that we are familiar with today. After when the Roman Empire fell in 476 CE, Europe moves toward the Middle Ages or the medieval times. Medieval music is the music that is produced in medieval Europe. This time period is thought to began with the fall of the Roman Empire, and the ending with the rise of the Renaissance period in Europe during the thirteenth century. Medieval music occurs from about 500 CE throughout the early 1400s. Early medieval music is connected with spirtual and religous activies and beliefs. The Catholic Church gained power at this time, filling the leadership gap that created a weak state governments. Because of this the Church had an great deal of influence and control over the arts, including music. Religos leaders chose to distance themselves from the paganism, meaning non Christian religions that emphasizes worship of nature instead of God. Paganism is associated with ancient Greek and Roman music. The music in the Middle Ages is different from the Greek and Roman empires, which led when musicians employed by the church or other religous institutions, and a great deal of medieval music was actually produced within monasteries.

The chant is one of the earliest types of medieval monophonic music. Chant is a type of monophonic sacred music. Medieval. chant influenced the various songs that was sang in Jewish traditions, and the monks sang chants during religous societies, and the melodies that the chants were recited to were often simple ones. Since various societies in Europe are isolated, even with the Catholic Church as an whole, the development of chants had their own styles in different places, such as the development of chants in Spain which shows the influence of North African music, while the chants in France are highly decorated and elaborate.

In 600 CE, Pope Gregory I had wanted to standarized the used chants during Mass, which is the Catholic religous service. This led to the desire of Gregorian chant, which is sung by male choirs. This Gregorian Chant is still being used today in many Catholic churches around the world. Medieval music in previous time periods is based on modes. Modes are musical forms that is used before the usage of familar modern day scales. Modes has a series of pitches organized in predefined order, with the specific intervals that is between each pitch, and modes are considered to have seven different kinds that used composed and played music. Examples are Ionian, Dorian, Phygian, Lydian, Mixodlyian, Aeolian, and Locrian. Each of these different modes has started on different notes and is continued on major scales, such as the Dorian mode that begins on D and moves upward playing all of the white keys until D again. The mode is considered to be D,E,F,G,A,B,C,D. The Phygrian mode begins on E and then moves upward to the keyboard touching only the white keys and ending on E. The Gregorian chants has used these musical modes. When monophonic music has dominated the early Middle Ages, polyphonic music grew popular and is used particulary about 900 CE. Polyphonic music is music that uses two or more independent melodies. Musicians and singers added harmonies to the chant, and there are early examples that are simple with an second voice that sings an fourth or fifth interval above the melody. Over time Polyphonic music becomes more complex, with more voices and counter melodies added. Organum is one of the first polyphonic form of music to develop. Organum is when there is an addition of an second voice that is sung in tandem, to Gregorian chants. The second voice is harmonized with melody that is at an interval below the main melody. Meaning the main melody goes up or down, as well the second voice. There are different forms of music in Medieval Europe. The music in Medieval Europe inspired and gave birth to the foundations of the musical notation that we are familar with today. In the early medieval music, medieval music did not used any forms of musical notation. Meaning the musical notation is memorized and played or is sung by ear. Since the musical notations monophonics are considered as fairly simple, this made the musicians to be able to better remember them. The neumes is one of the musical notation techniques that was developed. Neumes are signs that is written above the chant words that indcates where the voices should rise and where the voices are to fall in tone. During the early uses of neumes, the neumes gave us information about the melody that is followed, but the signs of the neumes has no indication of the exact rhythm or note. The later examples of neumes are beganning to incorporate information about the note and the rhythm of the melody. Neumes are considered as an primary system of musical notation with the five line staff musical notation that we see today. One of the major effects of the increased complex musical notation is that individuals composers ahd gained more recognition for their work. Before the use of musical notation is widely being used, musical pieces are passed along throughout memorizations of live performances. Meaning that composers has often forgotten the musical pieces while the music was played and spread. When the musical notation is beginning to spread and is used more widely, the composers name is noted with the musical piece. Because of this event, there was greater recognition for composers as their names starts to be associated with particular musical pieces. One of the first musical composers that benefited greatly is Guillaume de Machuat who lived from 1300 to 1377. Machuat wrote the Messe di Notre Dame and is influential in production and development of polyphonic music during the Medieval period. He is considered both an poet and composer, and has written over one hundred songs that would play an important role in the rise of musical forms. An example is the motet, which is a type of vocal music and considered as Catholic mass.

How to make old 1915-1922 old fashioned oatmeal.
Warm up hot bowl of water in microwave for 5 minutes.

Cautiously take out bowl, and put in scoops of rolled oats.

Mix.

Enjoy old fashioned rolled oatmeal.