HISTORY OF WESTERN

MUSIC

The Earliest Music

• Stone Age people bored finger holes in animal bones

• Bronze age which began in the fourth millennium BCE (metal instruments)

Instruments

Bells Jingles

Cymbals RattlesHorns

Music In Ancient Mesopotamia

• ca 25000 BCE

• Land between the Tigris and Euphrates River • Now part of modern day Iraq and Syria

Instruments

Lyres

Harps

Music in Ancient Greece

• Enough evidence - well-rounded view of a musical culture

Instruments

AULOS

KITHARA

LYRE

Instruments

• Aulos, was, used in the worship of Dionysus the God of fertility and wine

• Lyre - Apollo the god of light, prophecy, learning and the arts

• kithara - processions and sacred ceremonies

Music in Ancient Rome

• Greek Islands became a Roman Province in 146 BCE

• Music culture from the Greeks

Instruments

CornuBuccini