Moreover, musical notation, the ability to recreate from visual symbols polyphonic pitch and rhythmic complexity, was firmly in place centuries before the onset of the Renaissance. Although song and the spoken word coevolved naturally over perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, the ...
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Have you ever wondered why we use letter names in musical notation before? I have to confess that I had never really thought of it much until a friend asked me the other day how the music letter names were named and why the alphabet was used to name them. Here are a few ideas and ...
Music Notation History Music notation is the written record of musical sound. It is used both to create and perform music. Among the basic elements of musical sounds are pitch, duration, and volume. Pitch refers to the frequency property of sound waves. A higher pitch is associated with a ...
Using notation is about as old as music itself, but for our purposes we’re going to start in the year of 1025. If you were a peasant subsisting on unseasoned cabbage, it was probably a terrible year. If you were one of the wealthy, castled minorities it was probably a good year. Bu...
peculiar to the history of music arise from the transitory nature of music as a performed art form, musical notation (which was never obligatory for those belonging to the elitist social group), and the acoustical documentation of voices and sounds since the invention of the phonograph in 1877....
Music Notation History Music notationis the written record of musical sound. It is used both to create and perform music. Among the basic elements of musical sounds are pitch, duration, and volume. Pitch refers to the frequencyproperty of sound waves. A higher pitch is associated with a highe...
Music history is an academic discipline that is a field within musicology. Music history studies the origins of music, the genres of music, musical techniques and styles and the chronology of musical development. Music history can also include the study of the most influential composers and the ...
In 800 BCE the first recovered piece of recorded music was found. It was written in cuneiform and was a religious hymn. It should be noted that cuneiform is not a type of musical notation. By 700 BCE there are records of songs that include vocals with instrumentals. This added a whole ...
The History of Music Technology Music technology has, as previously stated, existed as long as humans have been making music. However, the last few centuries have seen a rapid series of developments in music technology. In this section on the history of music technology, a music technology ...