No one knows when people started making music. May naturally have started playing music when it first human presence in the face of this earth. It seems to primitive societies music is a natural way to express basic emotions such as happiness, anger, love, and also a sense of awe to things supernatural or natural power. Most of the music created to accompany ritual dances or the work. Beats feet and clapping their first thought to be the instrument. Then gradually people began to find ways to produce sound that is a kind of hollow pumpkins were hit with a stick or with blown. After refining the sounds they began to combine the tones and rhythms in various ways so was born the art of music.
However, at this stage of the art of music is still far from understanding serious music or music as pure art (fine art) because it is still filled with primitive emotional impulses. For approximately 2000 years, the musicians refine the elements of music, develop and organize into more complex structures. With an atmosphere dramatize the power of the state was reached serious music as we hear today (Barry, 1965). When we look at the alleged birth of the musical arts, the overall resemblance with Morgan's theory of cultural evolution, that human society evolved through three stages of development. At the first level that takes place before the invention of pottery, which at the time of the discovery of fire, the music is still very simple. At that time, in addition to the music produced through the use of their own bodies as instruments, also with hitting objects.
Once the bow is found there arose the idea to develop a stringed musical instrument. In addition it also raised the idea to create a musical ritual before hunting movements mimicked the behavior of the animals. When humans discovered ceramics, followed by the start of the breeding and farming skills, develops the musical accompaniment work and also a thanksgiving ritual, for example, when the harvest. Because at this time people are good at making metal then made percussion instruments such as gongs, gamelan, and so on. When entering the stage of civilization, humans began to recognize text to denote the idea that grows and publish music. Thus there was a good interaction between the concept and practice of music. Since then classical music has developed intensively to reach its peak and became different after the passing of the 20th century.
Written sources in the form of notes, musical notation, as well as music theory, is the primary ingredient in the preparation of the history of music. Meanwhile reliefs carved on the walls of tombs guagua and a secondary data. Musical data regarding Europe's oldest music is Greek music, while in the East it is Mezopotamia (kra about 3000 BC), while in Asia are China and India. Classical music (non-traditional) that we know today originated from the 6th century Europe SM. Prior to that time also using the lat-European musical instrument similar to those in the East, and Asia, namely stringed instruments or strings.
Theoretical ideas of nations outside Europe in previous centuries is a precious heritage, but as bound by tradition it is serious or classical music and their instruments are also not progressed too far from the original. Nevertheless, while the music culture in Europe tend to be aligned or fused as between one nation with another nation that continues to interact, non-European music has very rich variants. Now the music idioms into a fascination of the classical composers as material composition and music scientists probe. Although also not spared from its association with the belief in mystical things, the Europeans are trying to break away from the tradition of tying perhaps even religious beliefs.
Accordingly, with concept of rational thought them to formulate and develop the basic concepts of music theory. Discoveries in the field of music theory was later developed by musicians, then with the interaction between the discovery of the theory of music and music-making then evolusipun occur gradually.
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