Культурология. Горелова А.В - 55 стр.

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mournful wail as it passed though them. He broke them off in unequal lengths,
bound them together, and had the first musical instrument!
The fact is we can never trace the first musical instrument because all
primitive people all over the world seem to have made music of some sort. It
was usually music that had some religious significance and the spectator who
would dance, drum, or clap hands and sing with the music shared it in. It was
done more that for pleasure alone. This primitive music had a meaning as part of
the lives of the people.
The legend of Pan and the reeds suggests, however, how man first had the
idea for making various musical instruments. He may have imitated the sounds
of nature all about him to create his music.
The first instruments were of the drum type. Later, man invented wind
instruments made from the horns of animals. From these crude wind instruments
developed modern brass instruments. As man trained his musical sense, he
began to use reeds and thus produced more natural tones of greater delicacy.
Last of all, man discovered the use of strings and invented the simple lure
and harp from which developed the instruments played with a bow. In the
Middle Ages, the Crusaders brought bask many curious oriental instruments.
These, combined with the folk instruments that already existed in Europe,
developed into many of the instruments now in use.
5.5. Who Wrote The First Music?
All primitive people seem to have made music of some sort. But the
sounds they made were very different from those of modern music. This music
often consisted of long and loud exclamations, sight, moans, and shouts.
Dancing, clapping, and drumming went along with the singing.
Folk music has existed for centuries, passed from generation to by being
heard, not by being written down.
Composed music is many centuries old. Ancient civilizations such as the
Chinese, Hindu, Egyptian, Assyrian, and Hebrew all had music. Most of it was
unlike ours. Greeks made complicated music by putting tones together similar to
present-day scales. For notation they used the letters of the alphabet written
above the syllables of the words.
After the Greeks and Romans (who copied Greek music), the early
Christian church was important in the growth of the art of music. Saint Ambrose
and Saint Gregory began a style of music known as “plain song”.
This was a type of chant sung in unison. Tones followed one another is a
way similar to the method developed by the Greeks. Churchmen also learned to
write music down. The modern method developed from their system.
In 1600, Jacopo Peri produced the first opera, «Erudite». Later on, men
like Monteverde wrote not only operas but also music for instruments, such as
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