A culture's music is influenced by all other aspects of that culture, including social and economic organization, climate, and access to technology. The emotions and ideas that music expresses, the situations in which music is played and listened to, and the attitudes toward music players and composers all vary between regions and periods.
Prehistoric music
The development of music among humans occurred against the backdrop of natural sounds . It was possibly influenced by birdsong and the sounds other animals use to communicate. Some evolutionary biologists have theorized that the ability to recognize sounds not created by humans as "musical" provides a selective advantage. (See animal music).
Prehistoric music, once more commonly called primitive music, is the name given to all music produced in preliterate cultures ( prehistory ), beginning somewhere in very late geological history .
Traditional Native American and Australian Aboriginal music could be called prehistoric, but the term is commonly used to refer to the music in Europe before the development of writing there. It is more common to call the "prehistoric" music of non-European continents – especially that which still survives – folk , indigenous, or traditional music.
Music in ancient civilizations
The prehistoric era is considered to have ended with the development of writing, and with it, by definition, prehistoric music. "Ancient music" is the name given to the music that followed.
Ancient music was long thought to be all monophonic Sensations of tone, but recent archaeological evidence indicates that this view is no longer true. The "oldest known song" in cuneiform, 4,000 years old from Ur, deciphered by Prof. Anne Draffkorn Kilmer ( University of Calif. at Berkeley ), was demonstrated to be composed in harmonies of thirds, like ancient English gymel (Kilmer, Crocker, Brown, Sounds from Silence , 1976, Bit Enki, Berkeley, Calif., LCC 76-16729), and also was written using the diatonic scale . Therefore, neither harmony nor the diatonic scale can still be considered developments having only "Western" or European beginnings.
In addition, double pipes, such as used by the ancient Greeks, and ancient bagpipes, as well as a review of ancient drawings on vases and walls, etc., and ancient writings (such as in Aristotle, Problems, Book XIX.12) which described musical techniques of the time, all indicate harmony existed.
One pipe in the aulos pairs (double flutes) likely served as a drone or "keynote," while the other played melodic passages.
Instruments, such as the seven holed flute and various types of stringed instruments have been recovered from the Indus valley civilization archaeological sites.
Indian classical music ( marga ) can be found from the scriptures of the Hindu tradition, the Vedas. Samaveda, one of the four vedas describes music at length.
The term Early music era may also refer to contemporary but traditional or folk music, including Asian music , music of India , Jewish music , Greek music , Roman music , the music of Mesopotamia , the music of Egypt , and Muslim music .
Classical traditions
Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of art, ecclesiastical and concert music. A music is classical if it includes some of the following features: a learned tradition, support from the church or government, or greater cultural capital. Classical music is also described as complex, lasting, transcendent, and abstract.
In many cultures a classical tradition coexisted with traditional or popular music, occasionally for thousands of years, and with different levels of mutual borrowing with the parallel tradition.
MUSIC INDUSTRY
The music industry is the industry that creates, performs, promotes and preserves music .
Music industry is all over the world. The music industry is made up of:
Among others.
The first stirrings of a music industry came in the mid-to-late 18th century, when performers and composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began to seek opportunities to market their music and performances to the general public, rather than survive entirely on patronage from the aristocracy and church . After Mozart's death, his wife, the soprano Constanze Weber , continued the process of commercialization of his music through an unprecedented series of memorial concerts, the slow but steady sale of his manuscripts, and a collaboration with her second husband, Georg Nissen , on a biography of her first.
In the 19th century the music industry was dominated by sheet music publishers. In the United States , the music industry arose in tandem with the rise of blackface minstrelsy . The group of music publishers and songwriters which dominated popular music in the United States was known as Tin Pan Alley . In the early 20th century the phonograph industry grew greatly in importance, and the record industry eventually replaced the sheet music publishers as the industry's largest force.
