1. Pre-Historic/Ancient Music
Prehistoric-200 AD

2. Music Development Theories
Match rhythmic sounds with human movement – chanting, clapping, stomping, etc.
Imitate Nature – birds, ocean, rain, caves, etc.

3. Music Development Theories
Spontaneous vocal expression of emotion – anger, fear, anguish, joy, etc.
communication – drums, trumpets, horns, bones

4. Proof of Music Cave drawings
Instruments have been found – whistles, drums, bones, sticks
Oral and written stories that have been passed down

5. Why Music was Created
Accompany rituals or ceremonies – dances, births, deaths, hunting, marriage, religion, etc.
Tell a story
Express emotion and communicate
Magical powers – thought to affect character, life and well-being

6. Greeks Developed one of the first notation systems
Created first music festival in 586 BC
Greek words – music, rhythm, harmony, and cymbal
Depicted instruments – lyre and kithara (small harp)

7. Greeks
Syrinx (panpipes)
Tympanon (timpani)
Hydraulus (water organ)

8. Greeks
Pythagoras, a famous Greek mathematician and scientist, related the pitch of a note to the length of the string.
He also developed the idea of the musical interval (the distance between two pitches).

9. Ancient Times
In tombs in Persia, China, Babylon, India and in the pyramids of Egypt, musical instruments were buried with the dead.
Some of these instruments can still be played

10. Music in Ancient Times
Vocal and instrumental music became important ways in which to honor the gods.
Harps were made from bows by adding strings of several different lengths.

11. Music in Ancient Times
Pipes were made from hollow bones or bamboo. Holes were made in pipes to change the pitches.