MUSIC ART HISTORY

MUSIC ART HISTORY

Music is known since the presence of modern humans Homo sapiens that is about 180,000 to 100,000 years ago. There is no man who knows when the first known art and music. From archaeological discoveries at sites such as the African continent about 180,000 years to 100,000 years ago have shown changes in the evolution of the human brain thinking. With the human brain is smarter than animals, they make hunting more terancang so they can hunt large animals. With the ability of the brain, they can think farther up beyond the reach of reason and imagination and the spiritual. Language to communicate has been established between them. Of the language and a simple greeting for danger signs and gave the names of animals, some slowly emerging vocabulary to label objects and nickname for someone.

In life on the move, they probably got the inspiration to take the leg bone dry game that became their food and then blow it out and make a sound. There is also an inspiration when observing nature with a wood or bamboo blow cavities that emit sound. Wood furnaces and menjadisuling holes formed early.

Humans express their feelings of fear and joy using sounds. Play around with their sound into a song, hymn or poem inspired by the songs of small birds chirping. Wood and rock hard hit to bring exciting sounds and rhythms. Maybe they accidentally knocked a hollow tree trunk in it with a stick that emits strong. They used animal skins as clothing placed too close to the timber cavity into the drum.

Prehistoric music can only be theorized based on findings from paleolithic archeology sites. The flute is a seing alatmusik ditumakan at the time of pre-history and shape as derived from the Japanese shakuhachi. Divje Babe flute made from the femur berunag cave, which is estimated to have been used about 40,000 years ago. Various types of flutes and stringed musical instrument made or strings have been around since the time of the Indus Valley Civilization, India has one of the oldest musical traditions in the world that comes from the Vedas. The collection of the earliest and biggest prehistoric musical instruments was found in China and dates back to between 7000 and 6600 BC. Songs Hurrian / Hurrian songs are a collection of music written in the ancient Hurrian city excavated from Ugarit that there has been forecast at around 1400 BC

Music Genre

Music genre is a grouping of music according to its similarity to one another. Music can also be classified according to different criteria, such as geography. A genre can be defined by a musical technique, style, context, and theme music.

Grouping In Flow or style

In general, music grouped according to their uses, which can be grouped into three major domains, namely Art Music, Popular Music and Traditional Music.

Music Arts (Art Music)

Art music is music to the grouping of classical music and the kind of music that assessed the level of historical value other than artistic value. This type of music is used to refer to the types of music that are very obedient to the theories of music and is usually difficult for a layman to understand (except those already know the style of Popular Music).

Classical music

Classical music usually refers to European classical music, but sometimes also in Persian classical music, India, and others. European classical music itself consists of several periods, such as baroque, classical, and romantic.

Classical music is a broad term, usually refers to music that is rooted in the tradition of Western art, Christian music, and orchestral music, covers the period from about the 9th century to the 21st century.

European classical music is distinguished by the music of shape, non-European and popular music, especially the music notation system, which has been used since the 16th century. [2] Western music notation is used by composers to give instructions to the bearer of the music on the pitch, speed , metrum, individual rhythms and exact nature of a piece of music. This limits the practices such as improvisation and ad libitum ornamentation is often heard in non-European music (compare Indian classical music and Japanese traditional music) and popular music.

Formerly classical music in Europe mainly used for songs in church or accompaniment tracks for the King. Along with the development, also emerged from the classical music used for other purposes, such as describing classical music as audio visual, for example the song Cat and Mouse depicting a cat chasing a mouse.

Popular Music (Popular Music)

Popular music is the types of music that are currently favored by the general public. This type of music is music that fits with the current state of the time, so it fit in the ears of most people. Some genres of music including Pop Music is Popular, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Gospel, Underground, and others. This music genre can be found in almost all parts of the world because of the nature of the music that could almost be acceptable to everyone.

Jazz

Jazz is the kind of music that grew out of the merger of blues, ragtime, and European music, particularly band music. Several subgenres are Dixieland jazz, swing, bebop, hard bop, cool jazz, free jazz, jazz fusion, smooth jazz, and CafJazz.

Gospel

Gospel is a genre that is dominated by the vocal and usually have a Christian theme. Some subgenrenya is contemporary gospel and urban contemporary gospel. Actually kind of Gospel song has a feel similar to the Rock n Roll (hence Rock n Roll itself is actually a fusion or a mix of Rock, Jazz, and Gospel), originally introduced by the first Christian blacks in America. Some current examples are actually using the flow of gospel music is Israel Houghton. However, the current understanding of gospel music has expanded into the gospel music genre as a whole. In Indonesia, gospel music wing pop and rock much popularized by musicians such as Franky Sihombing, Giving My Best, Nikita, True Worshippers, and much more.

Blues

Blues comes from the Afro-American community that evolved from West African music. This species is then influenced many genres of pop music, including ragtime, jazz, big band, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, country, and pop music.

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues is the name of the traditional music of the Afro-American, the black pop music from the 1940s to the 1960s were not a jazz or blues.

Funk

Funk was also pioneered by musicians Afro-Americans, such as James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, and Sly and the Family Stone. Funk music types usually have a groovy beat tone, a rhythm that made the audience chuckle in the rhythm. Therefore, in many ways, often equated with groovy funk.

Rock

Rock, in the broadest sense, covering almost all popular music since the early 1950s. Its earliest form, rock and roll, is a fusion of different genres in the late 1940s, with musicians such as Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, and Elvis Presley. It is then heard by people all over the world, and in the mid-1960s several British bands such as The Beatles, began to imitate and become popular.

Rock music evolved into psychedelic rock, progressive rock became. Some British bands like The Yardbirds and The Who later evolved into hard rock, and then became heavy metal. The late 1970s punk rock music began to grow, with groups such as The Clash, The Ramones, and the Sex Pistols. In the 1980s, rock developed steadily, especially evolved into hardcore metal, thrash metal, glam metal, death metal, black metal and grindcore. There is also a british rock and underground.

Electronic

Electronic begins long before the invention of the synthesizer, with tape loops and analog electronic instruments in the 1950's and 1960's. The forerunner was John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Ska, Reggae, Dub

From the combination of R & B music and the traditional music of Jamaican mento emerged, and later developed into reggae and dub.

Hip hop / Rap / rapcore

Hip hop music can be considered a sub-genre of R & B. Starting in the early 1970s and 1980s, the music was originally developed in the U.S. east coast, called East Coast hip hop. In about 1992, hip hop music from the west coast also became famous by the name of West Coast hip hop. This kind of music is also mixed with heavy metal rapcore produce.

Pop

Pop music is a genre of important but the boundaries are often blurred, as many pop musicians also added to the category of rock, hip hop, country, etc..

Traditional Music (Traditional Music)

Traditional music is the music of life in the community for generations, preserved not as a means of entertainment, but there are also used for the treatment and there were to be a means of communication between man and creator, this is according to the beliefs of each person. Traditional music is a treasury of the local art community. Traditional music in Indonesia, such as gamelan, angklung and sasando. apart from traditional music from local culture, there are also traditional music from outside cultural influences such as xylophone kromong, marawis and keroncong.

Latin

Traditional Latin music genre usually refers to the Latin American music including music from Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Latin music has subgenres Samba.

Country

Traditional country music is influenced by blues, and growing of white American culture, especially in the city of Nashville. Some of the early country artist Merle Haggard was and Buck Owens.