The Evolution Of Music

Author : Andrew Sullivan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542523095

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Music History by Andrew Sullivan Pdf

This is the fascinating story of music. How it started with a song and became one of our most beloved arts. Learn how early composers added modal rhythm to religious chants and turned them into something greater. Discover how the printing press standardized music and helped it spread across the globe. Witness the birth of musical theater, opera, and classical music and the explosion of popular freeform music such as rhapsodies and preludes. See how 20th- and 21st-century composers created a wealth of music and left their mark on music forever. Watch the birth of Jazz and Blues in the deep south of America. Experience the explosion of Rock n' Roll in America and Europe and its evolution into Punk, Electric, Metal, New Wave and more. Hear English, Scottish and Irish folk songs and ballads transform into Country and Western Music. Examine the beginnings of electronic music and watch it spread across the globe. Meet the international superstars that created Pop Music. History of Music: From Prehistoric Sounds to Classical Music, Jazz, Rock Music, POP Music and Electronic Music is a quick dip into our relationship with sound and movement through time. You'll learn how music and songs grew from humble beginnings into an art that enriches, entertains, and relaxes us.

Author : Nicholas Bannan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199227341

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Music, Language, and Human Evolution by Nicholas Bannan Pdf

The accompanying DVD provides some glimpses of the practice of music in a variety of cultures and illustrates ways of listening to the human voice that reveal its intrinsic musicality. The DVD was edited by Pedro Espi-Sanchis, who recorded further material in South Africa.

Author : Michael Spitzer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526602749

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The Musical Human by Michael Spitzer Pdf

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History 'Extraordinary range ... All the world and more is here' Evening Standard 165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm. 66 million years ago came the first melody. 40 thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musical instrument. Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who we are. Yet it is an overlooked part of our origin story. The Musical Human takes us on an exhilarating journey across the ages – from Bach to BTS and back – to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. With insights from a wealth of disciplines, world-leading musicologist Michael Spitzer renders a global history of music on the widest possible canvas, from global history to our everyday lives, from insects to apes, humans to artificial intelligence. 'Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music' Daniel Levitin 'A thrilling exploration of what music has meant and means to humankind' Ian Bostridge

Author : Peter Townsend
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Music and technology
ISBN : 9780198848400

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The Evolution of Music Through Culture and Science by Peter Townsend Pdf

The Evolution of Music by Culture and Science aims to recognise the impact of science on music, why it occurs, how we respond, and even to tentatively see if we can predict future developments. Technology has played an immense role in the development of music as it has enabled the production of new sounds, introduced new instruments and continuously improved and modified existing ones. Printing, musical notation, and modern computer aids to composition, plus recordings and electronic transmission have equally enabled us to have access to music from across the world. Such changes, whether just more powerful pianos, or new sounds as from the saxophone, have inspired composers and audiences alike. Acoustics and architecture play similar roles as they changed the scale and performance of concert halls, and with the advent of electronics, they enabled vast pop music festivals. No aspect of modern music making has been untouched by the synergy with scientific innovation. This is not a one-way interaction as the early attempts to make recordings were a major motivating force to design the electronics for amplifiers and these in turn inspired and enabled the designs of semiconductor electronics and modern computer technology. To appreciate the impact of technology on music does not require any prior scientific background as the concepts are invariably extremely simple and are presented here without technical detail. Understanding music and why we like different genres is far more complex, as this involves our personal background and taste. Both aspects change with time, and there is no contradiction in enjoying items as diverse as baroque madrigals, symphonies, jazz or pop music, or music from totally different cultures.

Author : Alan R. Harvey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780198786856

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Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls by Alan R. Harvey Pdf

Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - should become more widely accepted in our community as a mainstream educational and therapeutic tool. This book explores the importance of music throughout human evolution, and its continued relevance to modern-day human society. Throughout, the emphasis is on the origin of music and how (and where) it is processed in our brains, exploring in detail the genetic and cultural evolution of modern, loquacious humans, how we may have evolved with unique neural and cognitive architecture, and why two complementary but distinct communication systems - language and music - remain a human universal. In addition the book explores, in some depth, the different theories that have been put forward to explain why musical communication was (and remains) advantageous to our species, with a particular emphasis on the role of music and dance in enhancing altruistic and prosocial behaviours. The author suggests that music, and the social harmonization it brings, was of vital importance in early humans as we became more and more individualized by the emergence of modern language and the modern mind, and the realization that we are mortal. Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls demonstrates the evolutionary sociobiological importance of music as a driver of cooperative and interactive behaviour throughout human existence, and what this evolutionary imperative means to twenty-first century humanity and beyond, from social and medical/neurological perspectives

Author : Richard James Burgess
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199357178

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The History of Music Production by Richard James Burgess Pdf

This title offers an authoritative, concise, and accessible overview of nearly 140 years of production of recorded music. It describes what role the music producer has played in shaping the creation, perception, propagation, business, and use of music, and discusses the future of the music production industry.

Author : Angela Jones,Rebecca Jane Bennett
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780081000700

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The Digital Evolution of Live Music by Angela Jones,Rebecca Jane Bennett Pdf

The concept of ‘live’ has changed as a consequence of mediated culture. Interaction may occur in real time, but not necessarily in shared physical spaces with others. The Digital Evolution of Live Music considers notions of live music in time and space as influenced by digital technology. This book presents the argument that live music is a special case in digital experience due to its liminal status between mind and body, words and feelings, sight and sound, virtual and real. Digital live music occupies a multimodal role in a cultural contextual landscape shaped by technological innovation. The book consists of three sections. The first section looks at fan perspectives, digital technology and the jouissance of live music and music festival fans. The second section discusses music in popular culture, exploring YouTube and live music video culture and gaming soundtracks, followed by the concluding section which investigates the future of live music and digital culture. gives perspectives on the function of live music in digital culture and the role of digital in live music focuses on the interaction between live and digital music takes the discussion of live music beyond economics and marketing, to the cultural and philosophical implications of digital culture for the art includes interviews with producers and players in the digital world of music production furthers debate by looking at access to digital music via social media, websites, and applications that recognise the impact of digital culture on the live music experience

Author : Nils L. Wallin,Bjorn Merker,Steven Brown
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 0262731436

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The Origins of Music by Nils L. Wallin,Bjorn Merker,Steven Brown Pdf

The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology. What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the universal features of music and musical behavior across cultures? In this groundbreaking book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, ethologists, and linguists come together for the first time to examine these and related issues. The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology—the study of which will contribute greatly to our understanding of the evolutionary precursors of human music, the evolution of the hominid vocal tract, localization of brain function, the structure of acoustic-communication signals, symbolic gesture, emotional manipulation through sound, self-expression, creativity, the human affinity for the spiritual, and the human attachment to music itself. Contributors Simha Arom, Derek Bickerton, Steven Brown, Ellen Dissanayake, Dean Falk, David W. Frayer, Walter Freeman, Thomas Geissmann, Marc D. Hauser, Michel Imberty, Harry Jerison, Drago Kunej, François-Bernard Mâche, Peter Marler, Björn Merker, Geoffrey Miller, Jean Molino, Bruno Nettl, Chris Nicolay, Katharine Payne, Bruce Richman, Peter J.B. Slater, Peter Todd, Sandra Trehub, Ivan Turk, Maria Ujhelyi, Nils L. Wallin, Carol Whaling

Author : Iain Morley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199234080

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The Prehistory of Music by Iain Morley Pdf

This volume investigates the evolutionary origins of our musical abilities, the nature of music, and the earliest archaeological evidence for musical activities amongst our ancestors. It seeks to understand the relationship between our musical capabilities and the development of our social, emotional, and communicative abilities as a species.

Author : Robert Fink
Publisher : Robert Martin Fink
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Stages in the Evolution of Music, Scales and Harmony by Robert Fink Pdf

Author : Leonid Perlovsky,Aleksey Nikolsky
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889662869

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The Evolution of Music by Leonid Perlovsky,Aleksey Nikolsky Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Nicky Huys
Publisher : Nicky Huys Books
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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History Of Music: The Evolution Of Sound And Expression by Nicky Huys Pdf

"History of Music: The Evolution of Sound and Expression" is a comprehensive exploration of how music has evolved over centuries, reflecting the cultural, social, and technological changes that have shaped human civilization. From ancient rituals and traditional folk tunes to the rise of classical compositions and the birth of popular music, this book delves into the diverse forms of musical expression and their impact on societies worldwide. Through a rich tapestry of historical anecdotes, musical analysis, and cultural insights, this book celebrates the universal language of music and its profound ability to convey emotions, tell stories, and unite people across time and space. Join us on a captivating journey through the ages, as we unravel the fascinating story of how music has shaped the human experience and continues to evolve in the modern era.

Author : Curt Sachs
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486171517

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The History of Musical Instruments by Curt Sachs Pdf

Written by a distinguished musicologist, this comprehensive history of musical instruments traces their evolution from prehistoric times in a fusion of music, anthropology, and fine arts. Includes 24 plates and 167 illustrations.

Author : David Ernst
Publisher : New York : Schirmer Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Music
ISBN : MINN:31951001060815O

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The Evolution of Electronic Music by David Ernst Pdf

Author : Steven Jan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781800647381

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Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music by Steven Jan Pdf

Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music by Steven Jan is a comprehensive account of the relationships between evolutionary theory and music. Examining the ‘evolutionary algorithm’ that drives biological and musical-cultural evolution, the book provides a distinctive commentary on how musicality and music can shed light on our understanding of Darwin’s famous theory, and vice-versa. Comprised of seven chapters, with several musical examples, figures and definitions of terms, this original and accessible book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the relationships between music and evolutionary thought. Jan guides the reader through key evolutionary ideas and the development of human musicality, before exploring cultural evolution, evolutionary ideas in musical scholarship, animal vocalisations, music generated through technology, and the nature of consciousness as an evolutionary phenomenon. A unique examination of how evolutionary thought intersects with music, Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music is essential to our understanding of how and why music arose in our species and why it is such a significant presence in our lives.