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Music History

Music History. The Beginning…. When did music start?. 180000 BC: Evidence of mammoth bones crafted to make instruments. What would early instruments have been made out of?. Why???. The Ancient Greeks. Western culture takes its ideals of beauty and art from ancient Greece and Rome

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Music History

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  1. Music History The Beginning…

  2. When did music start? • 180000 BC: Evidence of mammoth bones crafted to make instruments

  3. What would early instruments have been made out of? Why???

  4. The Ancient Greeks • Western culture takes its ideals of beauty and art from ancient Greece and Rome • Roots of philosophy, government, literature, visual art, and our musical ideal • Throughout history Europe and America have turned to Greece and Rome for instruction and inspiration

  5. Greek Musical Thought • Music has the power to move people in powerful ways • There is one, true, right form of music • Connection between music and numbers • Connection between music and astronomy • Unison of music and poetry

  6. What did the music of ancient Greece and Rome sound like?

  7. Guess what?

  8. We don’t know.

  9. What we do know… • The Greeks wrote about music and composition and the place of music in society • The Greeks invented music theory: Pythagoras! • Due to modern archeology and scholarship, we now have a few surviving samples of music

  10. A little history… • 753 BC Rome founded • Ca. 700 BC Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey • Ca. 497 BC Pythagoras dies • Ca. 380 BC Plato’s Republic • Ca. 4 AD Jesus born • Ca. 33 AD Crucifixion of Jesus • Ca. 100 AD Christian liturgy • Ca. 312 AD Roman emperor Constantine converts to Christianity to become more popular • 476 AD Rome falls, Christian Church is primary power • 591 AD Pope Gregory I (the Great) elected and formalizes the rules of chant: Gregorian Chant • 800 AD Emperor Charlemagne imposes Gregorian chant and suppresses all other music forms in the Roman empire

  11. What was between the ancient Greeks and Gregorian chant?

  12. What is chant? • Used as part of the Christian church service • Considered a heightened form of speech-prayer • Appropriate way to communicate with God • Monks (the intellectual elite) chanted 8 hours a day in the 9th/10th century

  13. Characteristics of Chant

  14. 900-1000 AD First examples of pitch notation since the Greeks

  15. Homework:If music were a picture, what would it look like? • Pick any song or music selection and draw it for us. • Can use any materials: different papers, different colors of ink, etc. BUT must remain two dimensional. Think ABSTRACT. • DUE: In class, Tuesday, April 13th

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