Music, who didn't hear? But what is music and what isn't? It is an artistic combination and arrangement of musical instruments, including the human voice, to represent or evoke expression of emotion. It's not a coincidence or noise according to musicologists. According to John Cage, a 20-year-old composer century, every sound is music and is in his music therefore the composition, the organization of the music, has disappeared. The word music comes from the old Greek "mousikè" which means "muse art."
Music is of all times and all peoples or communities and much older than the ancient Greeks. At the beginning of the second half of the last ice age, some 50,000 to 10,000 years before our era, when the first nomads, similar to the present man, spread over what is now called Europe that was already inspired by what they thought, felt and saw around them. These hunters made in addition to cave drawings, flutes of pedestals and hollow bones, with sometimes tone holes, as shown by archaeological finds. These are mainly used for rituals by a shaman, actually just like later in the church in the Middle Ages. Music is Dieu Donné, a gift from God. In the Bible book Genesis, a man named Jubal appears, who would be the first producer of musical instruments.
Evidence was found in reliefs in ancient Egypt, as far back as the 31st century BC, of dance. And you dance to music. At that time, too, this happened with string and percussion instruments, just like today. Nowadays there is a huge variety of music, both ancient, written or not, compositions, going back many centuries one from many continents, and contemporary music. Every day music pieces still see the light. Pop and rock music may be the first thing we think about right now.
I can still remember vividly, how the music of The Beatles, which I listened to when I was six years old, in 1966, was dismissed by my parents and their peers as a whim, full of cat crying. Someone even said occasionally that pop music would not have long life and would extinguish like a candle. For the time being that is not the case, although it is a matter of taste which is good and bad music, and not everyone finds the same interesting or beautiful. The fact is that music still originates from emotions and evokes the same. Personally, I cannot imagine a life without music.
And with me many others, which has made music, or if you like, become a billion-dollar industry, where record companies, as they have once been mentioned, often determine what people can listen to. Because of the distribution of lps, CDs, Blu-ray, cassette tapes, mp3s and whatnot, everyone can listen to music wherever and whenever they want and not only in a concert hall. The latter gets less and less interesting because there are hardly any concerts left where the audience doesn't have one piece to talk through or rather, to scream, given the sound strength of the music performed and you wonder why those people came to a concert. A ritual, as it was in the 1960s, is apparently no longer. Music has apparently turned into background noise.
