Pre-Historic/Ancient Music

1. Pre-Historic/Ancient Music Prehistoric-200 AD

2. Music Development Theories • Match rhythmic sounds with human movement – chanting, clapping, stomping, etc. • Imitate Nature – birds, ocean, rain, caves, etc.

3. Music Development Theories • Spontaneous vocal expression of emotion – anger, fear, anguish, joy, etc. • communication – drums, trumpets, horns, bones

4. Proof of Music • Cave drawings • Instruments have been found – whistles, drums, bones, sticks • Oral and written stories that have been passed down

5. Why Music was Created • Accompany rituals or ceremonies – dances, births, deaths, hunting, marriage, religion, etc. • Tell a story • Express emotion and communicate • Magical powers – thought to affect character, life and well-being

6. Greeks • Developed one of the first notation systems • Created first music festival in 586 BC • Greek words – music, rhythm, harmony, and cymbal • Depicted instruments – lyre and kithara (small harp)

7. Greeks • Syrinx (panpipes) • Tympanon (timpani) • Hydraulus (water organ)

8. Greeks • Pythagoras, a famous Greek mathematician and scientist, related the pitch of a note to the length of the string. • He also developed the idea of the musical interval (the distance between two pitches).

9. Ancient Times • In tombs in Persia, China, Babylon, India and in the pyramids of Egypt, musical instruments were buried with the dead. • Some of these instruments can still be played

10. Music in Ancient Times • Vocal and instrumental music became important ways in which to honor the gods. • Harps were made from bows by adding strings of several different lengths.

11. Music in Ancient Times • Pipes were made from hollow bones or bamboo. Holes were made in pipes to change the pitches.