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Evolution of Music Through History

1. Humans have been making music for a very long time, with early evidence of flutes dating back thousands of years. Melodies are made by playing notes in sequence, and playing two notes at the same time creates harmony. 2. Pythagoras is credited with discovering the mathematical relationships between notes that determine if a harmony sounds good. He noticed the harmonies created by blacksmith hammers of different weights. 3. Throughout history, great minds studied music and sounds, from Aristotle to Da Vinci to Beethoven. Music expanded from blacksmith shops to churches and courts with larger orchestras. Technology like the phonograph kickstarted the commercial music industry.

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Evolution of Music Through History

1. Humans have been making music for a very long time, with early evidence of flutes dating back thousands of years. Melodies are made by playing notes in sequence, and playing two notes at the same time creates harmony. 2. Pythagoras is credited with discovering the mathematical relationships between notes that determine if a harmony sounds good. He noticed the harmonies created by blacksmith hammers of different weights. 3. Throughout history, great minds studied music and sounds, from Aristotle to Da Vinci to Beethoven. Music expanded from blacksmith shops to churches and courts with larger orchestras. Technology like the phonograph kickstarted the commercial music industry.

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1.
N1: how did music begin?
N2: No one knows but humans have been making music for a very long time,
perhaps even longer than we had language there is no evidence of our cavemen
ancestors fashioning crude flutes from bears femurs

2.
N1: By 7000bc in China we find the first evidence of a melodic flute that could
play a scale and carry a simple tune
N3: melodies are made by playing notes one after the other, play two at the
same time and you can make a harmony that sounds good together

3.
N1: the story goes that Pythagoras who first worked out why this happens.
Walking past a blacksmith he heard the ring of hammers hitting the iron
and did some quick sums
N2: he reckoned whether the hammer standard good or bad was down to
math if one was half two thirds or three quarters of the other which might
be noises but he was right that math and harmony are closely related

4.
N3: other great minds of science also studied sounds and music from Aristotle
to Leonardo da Vinci to Galileo. None however were particularly noted for their
musical prowess
N1: by now music is spread from blacksmiths forges to medieval monasteries
and then into houses and courts where renaissance nobles danced to the latest
sounds of sackbut and crumhorn
1.
N2: by Beethoven’s heyday performances gone from quartets and quintets to
full blown orchestras. Not only within our trombones to top of the triangles and
timpani but the orchestra had outgrown private houses and music was also
going commercial at the end of his life all of Beethoven’s symphonies were
performed in public concert halls.

2.
N3: Then one morning in December 1877 Thomas Edison walked into an office
and put a machine on the desk he had made the first device to record and
playback [Link] introducing technology he single handedly kick
started the music industry that we know today.

3.
N1: Soon music records went on sale and then on Christmas eve 1906 the
first radio broadcast which included a festive Christmas carol. it was a
humble start to music radio.

5.
N2: music no longer had to be performed live, you no longer needed an
orchestra in your front room. Thanks to technology music became smaller,
cheaper and louder. The phonograph, the gramophone, the jukebox, the LP, the
Walkman, the CD, the minidisk player and the MP3 have all brought music to
our ears

6.
N3: as technology has advanced music has become more flexible with millions
of artists coming up all over the world who express their feelings and emotions
through music and reach out to the larger audience.

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