Music Is a Living Moving Thing
Music is a living moving thing
Ppl have been dealing with music since the beginning of the history. At the beginning it was not the kind of music we have today. The first people imitated music from nature. They mimicked the sound from their everyday life. It had no rhythm or tune it was just noise, but later turned into what we now call music.
Ancient people used music for much more than entertainment. They used it during the battles, had ceremonies in honor of smb or smth, to show smb’s importance in society.
Different instruments spread around to different cultures and countries. This brought on a new way of looking at music. Around the 16th century people started to collect music.
A person’s hands and feet were the first of all the instruments and is still the most common, thought now there exist a great variety of instruments that don’t use people’s hands..
Ancient musicians made their living travelling around and playing their instruments. They asked for money or food from the people they composed for, instead of just money. They would tell stories and sing folk songs. They had no permanent homes. The people that used to be bards are now what we call musicians, but musicians in this day and age would rather have money than anything else.
In the Middle ages mainly Christian Church that dominated in Europe dictated the conditions for music development. At that time the most widespread kind of music was Gregorian Chant.
As the Renaissance was the time of cultural awakening and development of arts and sciences, music became free of church and new styles appeared as instrumental and dance music and such kind of music as English madrigal.
In Classical period musicians moved away from Baroque and Rococo styles to new tuneful and elegant music. Vienna – the centre. New styles of dancing: minuet, gavotte. + serenades, divertimenti. Names – Mozart, Beethoven< Schubert.
Composers of the Romantic Era broke new musical ground by adding
Ppl have been dealing with music since the beginning of the history. At the beginning it was not the kind of music we have today. The first people imitated music from nature. They mimicked the sound from their everyday life. It had no rhythm or tune it was just noise, but later turned into what we now call music.
Ancient people used music for much more than entertainment. They used it during the battles, had ceremonies in honor of smb or smth, to show smb’s importance in society.
Different instruments spread around to different cultures and countries. This brought on a new way of looking at music. Around the 16th century people started to collect music.
A person’s hands and feet were the first of all the instruments and is still the most common, thought now there exist a great variety of instruments that don’t use people’s hands..
Ancient musicians made their living travelling around and playing their instruments. They asked for money or food from the people they composed for, instead of just money. They would tell stories and sing folk songs. They had no permanent homes. The people that used to be bards are now what we call musicians, but musicians in this day and age would rather have money than anything else.
In the Middle ages mainly Christian Church that dominated in Europe dictated the conditions for music development. At that time the most widespread kind of music was Gregorian Chant.
As the Renaissance was the time of cultural awakening and development of arts and sciences, music became free of church and new styles appeared as instrumental and dance music and such kind of music as English madrigal.
In Classical period musicians moved away from Baroque and Rococo styles to new tuneful and elegant music. Vienna – the centre. New styles of dancing: minuet, gavotte. + serenades, divertimenti. Names – Mozart, Beethoven< Schubert.
Composers of the Romantic Era broke new musical ground by adding