DO NOW:

GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF HOW MUSIC COULD

HAVE EVOLVED OVER TIME.

The History of Music

Ancient Music
B.C. to 500 A.D.

Answer:
1. Where did music come
from?
2. What do you think was
the first musical
instrument?

ANCIENT MUSIC- PREHISTORIC

Music is a unique human

activity.

What do you think was the

first musical instrument?

The Human Voice!

The human voice can make

a variety of sounds. It can
sing, hum, whistle, and
click.

What do you think was the

first rhythm instrument?

ANCIENT MUSIC
The first rhythm instruments were
hand clapping.
Other early instruments include
drums made with animal skins and
flutes made out of animal bones.

TYPES OF ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS

Aerophones- sound is made

from vibration of air.
Examples: flutes, pipes, organs,
whistles
Ancestors of modern-day
woodwind and brass
instruments.

TYPES OF ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS

Idiophones- made of naturally sonorous

material that can be played in a variety
of ways (shaken, hit, scraped, plucked).
Examples: bells, gongs, vessels (gourds),
xylophones (barred instruments)
Ancestors of modern day percussion
instruments.

TYPES OF ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS

MembranophonesInstruments where sound is

made from stretching a
membrane, or thin layer of
skin, tightly around a boxed
surface.

Examples: drums

TYPES OF ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS

Chordophones- Instruments
where the sound is made from
the vibration of strings.
Examples: bows, lyres, harps,
lutes, zithers.
Ancestor of modern-day violin,
guitar, and piano

ANCIENT MUSIC

A culture's music is influenced by all

other aspects of that culture, including
social and economic organization and
experience, climate, and access to
technology. The emotions and ideas
that music expresses, the situations in
which music is played and listened to,
and the attitudes toward music
players and composers all vary
between regions and periods.

What does this mean?

ANCIENT MUSIC- GREEK

Music was very important to the

ancient Greeks.
Music was performed for
weddings, funerals, and for
entertainment.
Homer (The Odyssey)- epics
were sung.

ANCIENT MUSIC- GREEK

We know about ancient Greek
music from ancient art
such as vases.
Very little of their
written music
has survived.
Why?

How else do we know about Ancient

music?

Art
Writings
Artifacts

ANCIENT MUSIC- GREEK

The Greeks were an advanced society

in many ways- including music.
They were the first to link music to
math. For example, a stretched string
when divided creates the intervals we
use today.
Pythagoras used math to show special
tunings in music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE
VGQKwKeCc

ANCIENT MUSIC- GREEK

INSTRUMENTS

The Aulos

The principle
woodwind of
ancient Greece
was the aulos,
consisting of a
pair of
cylindrical
pipes with
double reed

ANCIENT MUSIC- GREEK

INSTRUMENTS

The Cithara

The cithara
(or kithra) is
a wooden type
of Greek lyre.
http://www.oea
w.ac.at/kal/ag
m/
Greek lyre

ANCIENT MUSIC- GREEK

The Greeks also used scales in a

different way.
Modes- 8 note scales, starting on one
note of the C scale. They have no
sharps or flats (no black keys are used)
Each mode has a different sound which
was supposed to create a different feel
in the listener.

GREEK MODES
Ionian: C D E F G A B (C)- the
Major scale
Dorian:
D E F G A B C (D)
Phrygian:
E F G A B C D (E)
Lydian:
F G A B C D E (F)
Mixolydian: G A B C D E F (G)
Aeolian: A B C D E F G (A)- the
Minor scale
Locrian:
B C D E F G A (B)

GREEK MODES

GREEK MODES

Doctrine of Ethos- each

mode invokes a different
feeling.

GREEK MODES

Ionian Major

Dorian Minor bluesy

Phrygian Minor Spanish

GREEK MODES

Lydian Major

Mixylodian Major Bluesy

Aeolian Minor scale

Locrian Very unstable