Music is pleasing to the eyes and brings auditory enjoyment to everyone. Music can improve people's aesthetic ability, purify people's souls, and establish lofty ideals. People express their emotions through music and release many of their emotions.

Music can be divided into two major types: vocal music and instrumental music, and can be roughly divided into classical music, folk music, original music, modern music (including pop music), etc. Among art types, music is abstract, and music can be divided into Eastern music and Western music from the historical development. In the East, the ancient Chinese theory, led by Chinese Han music, is based on the pentatonic scale, namely Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, and Yu, while in the West, the heptatonic scale is the mainstay.

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Historical development

Music refers to an art composed of human voices or instrumental sounds with melody, rhythm or harmony. .

It is impossible to examine exactly when human society began. But as early as 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;

When people celebrate harvests and share the fruits of labor, Stone and wooden tools are often struck to express joy and happiness. This is the prototype of the original musical instrument.

The history of Western music refers to the development process of Western music. The detailed eras can be divided into: ancient Greek and Roman music, medieval music, Renaissance music, Baroque music, classical music, romantic music, modern music etc.

Baidu Encyclopedia—Music (Abstract Art)