Music originated from the very ancient prehistoric era.

Before humans developed language, they already knew how to use the pitch, strength, etc. of sounds to express their meaning and feelings. With the development of human labor, chants to unify the rhythm of labor and shouts to convey information to each other gradually emerged. This is the most primitive prototype of music. In the fourth millennium BC there was already relatively developed music.

At that time, the Sumerians already had harp-like instruments and several orchestral instruments. Professional singers and larger bands also emerged in the early courts. Later, these more advanced musical cultures gradually spread to ancient countries such as Egypt, Greece, India and China, and received further development in these areas in different forms with national colors.

The main elements of music:

1. Melody: Melody is also called melody. The ups and downs of music are organized horizontally in an orderly manner according to a certain rhythm to form a melody. Melody is the most important means of expression in music form, the essence of music, and the decisive factor of music

2. Rhythm: The rhythm of music refers to the speed and strength of the mid-tones in the music movement. The rhythm of music is often compared to the skeleton of music. Beat is the periodic and regular repetition of heavy beats and weak beats in music. Traditional Chinese music calls the beat "banyan", "ban" is equivalent to the strong beat; "eye" is equivalent to the sub-strong beat (middle eye) or weak beat.

3. Harmony: Harmony includes "chords" and "harmonic progressions". Chords are usually a combination of three or more tones that overlap vertically (simultaneously) according to certain rules. The horizontal organization of chords is the harmonic progression. Harmony has obvious color effects of thick, light, thick and thin; it also has the function of forming phrases, dividing sections and ending music.

4. Strength: the strength of the midrange of the music.

5. Speed: how fast the music progresses.

6. Mode: The tones used in music are connected according to a certain relationship. These tones form a system with one tone as the center (the main tone), which is called mode. Such as major mode, minor mode, my country's pentatonic mode, etc. The notes in the mode, starting from the tonic note and arranged from low to high, form a scale.

7. Music form: the horizontal organizational structure of music.

8. Texture: the combination form of each voice in a polyphonic musical work. (Including vertical and horizontal combination relationships).

9. Timbre: Timbre can be divided into human voice timbre and musical instrument timbre. In music, sometimes only a single timbre is used, and sometimes a mixture of timbres is used.