Origin

As for the origin of music, it is called the product of "heterosexual courtship" by scientists.

This statement was put forward by the famous British biologist Darwin. This theory was a sensation at the time. Darwin believed that prehistoric animals often used chirps to woo the opposite sex.

The more beautiful their voices are, the more attractive they are to the opposite sex, so animals make graceful and graceful voices one after another to win each other's favor. This kind of song, especially the song of birds, has a musical sound. or rhythm factors.

Therefore, Darwin associates this with the origin of music and believes that sound existed before the emergence of language. The songs of some ethnic groups among primitive tribes imitate the calls, moving chirps, and ups and downs of melody of various birds, thus forming beautiful folk songs that have been sung for centuries.

Development

The history of Western music refers to the development process of Western music. The detailed eras can be divided into: music in ancient Greece and Rome, music in the Middle Ages, and music in the Renaissance , Baroque music, classical music, romantic music, modern music, etc.

Extended information

Basic elements of music: The basic elements of music refer to the various elements that make up music, including the pitch of the sound, the length of the sound, the strength and timbre of the sound. These basic elements are combined with each other to form the commonly used "formal elements" of music, such as: melody, rhythm, harmony, as well as dynamics, speed, mode, form, texture, timbre, etc. The formal elements that constitute a musician are the means of musical expression. The most basic elements of music are melody and rhythm.

1. Melody: Melody is also called melody. The ups and downs of the 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. The progression direction of a tune is endlessly changing, and there are three basic progression directions: "horizontal progression", "upward" and "downward". The direction in which the same sound progresses is called horizontal progress; the direction from bass to treble is called ascending; the direction from treble to bass is called descending. Common ways of progressing tunes include: "repetition of the same tone", "progression" and "jump forward". The progression according to the adjacent notes of the scale is called progression, the jump in third degree is called minor jump, and the jump in fourth degree and above is called major jump.

2. Rhythm: The rhythm of music refers to the length 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 sound combinations formed by 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. The human voice can be divided into children's voice, female voice, male voice, etc. The differences in the timbres of musical instruments are even more varied. In music, sometimes only a single timbre is used, and sometimes a mixture of timbres is used.

Reference materials

Baidu Encyclopedia-Music