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The History of Music. Music ’ s Humble Beginnings. During this Unit, We Will…. What Will I Be Doing?. What Do You Know About…. The Stone Age? The Bronze/Iron Age? The first musical instruments?. Music’s Beginning: The Stone Age. Lasted approximately 2.5 million years - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Music’s Humble Beginnings
The Stone Age?
The Bronze/Iron Age?
The first musical instruments?
Lasted approximately 2.5 million years
Classified by the use of stonework
Instruments found in Germany – 35,000 years old
Carved from animal bones or skins
Why do you think the caveman made instruments?
Flute carved from the bone
of a vulture
Beginning of the 4th Millennium
Classified by the use of copper, bronze, and gold in the making of weapons and the trading of goods. Later, iron and steel were developed.
Instruments made of wood, animal skins, string (perishable materials), and metal (lasting)
Recorded images in cave drawings and archaeological findings
Swedish Lure Irish Bronze Age Horn
“The Killyfaddy Four” The Loughnashade Trumpa
Mesopotamia, now part of Iraq and Syria (Middle East)
Insert scan from “A History of Western Music,” page 7
Gregorian Chant
Simple chants from Roman melodies and new melodies
“Vica voce” – learning by ear
One of the earliest form of notated music
The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos
“Puer Natus Est Nobis”
“Veni Sancti Spiritus”