I don't know if anyone will be able to help me but I'm researching the progression of the first music until now. I just need like a site or some information, like a timeline or something of ow music has advanced, what the first instruments were, how they first made music, etc. Please help :)

This is a good place to start : Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hi, BackFrumTheDead!

Why are you researching this and is this about western or eastern music or just music in general on the Earth?

Probably, the very first musical instruments, other than the human voice, were wooden sticks and drums.

I do hope that you return to this thread so that we might be able to discuss about what you're wanting to know. I've taught music in schools for many years and would be interested in helping you with this.

Thanks!

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Hi, BackFrumTheDead!

Why are you researching this and is this about western or eastern music or just music in general on the Earth?

Probably, the very first musical instruments, other than the human voice, were wooden sticks and drums.

I do hope that you return to this thread so that we might be able to discuss about what you're wanting to know. I've taught music in schools for many years and would be interested in helping you with this.

Thanks!

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Thank you for helping out :) its just music in general.

I'm researching this because it sounded interesting and I am personally a music addict I love music.

Plus, I decided it would be cool to know how music origonated, and then progressed.

If anyone else who might know something about my little project I would like the help :)

Hi again, BackFrumTheDead!

Well, what have you learned so far, then? It would be helpful to us to know that.

Also, do you happen to play a musical instrument? If so, which one or ones do you know how to play?

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Clough

Hi again, BackFrumTheDead!

Well, what have you learned so far, then? It would be helpful to us to know that.

Also, do you happen to play a musical instrument? If so, which one or ones do you know how to play?

Thanks!

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I don't know if this counts, but in 6 grade I had to play the recorder as a required instrument.

But I have learned that even when music first started they made similar sounds to today's instruments like the drums, string plucking, singing etc.

Hi again, BackFrumTheDead!

Yes, the first music sounds, other than than that derived while using the human voice was probably an animal skin stretched over a hollow stump or hollow log in order to make a drum; strings plucking could have happened by strings made of hemp, or any other substance out of which rope, twine and string can be made, or the guts from animals, etc.

Any sort of "string" could have then be stretched and affixed between two points that were affixed to some sort of resonating chamber.

Early reed instruments were basically made of reeds that came out of bodies of water and branches cut from the limbs of trees. They would be very much like the recorders that you had to play.

Thanks!

Thanks a lot for helping me out, this really helps out on how the origonal instruments compare to today's instruments.

By the way, do you know anything about what types of things they would sing about?

Also, do you mind if I use the things you told me in my report? This is all very helpful. Thanks

Hi again, BackFrumTheDead!

Sure, you can use what I've written in your report. So, is this for a school project or assignment?

Although what early people sang about could be surrounded by much conjecture, I would assume that some of their main songs that they might have would be about their everyday lives and possibly to those entities that they might have worshiped. The primitive instruments that they made, may have been used in worship.

Please think about the fact that they didn't have electricity and most of the modern things to use that those of us living today, pretty much take for granted.

Possibilities for what they might sing about could have been, whatever deity they worshiped, the planting and harvesting of crops, love, the influencing of the weather by what they sang, etc.

They were trying to survive in what might have been some pretty hard climate conditions during certain times of the year.

What grade are you in now, please?

Thanks!

Im in 8 grade, and actually the things you've told me have helped me find a lot of what I needed like I found the names of the first recorded instruments in history. Wind instruments: ocarina, drum: stick and a surface, stringed instruments: a bow(first recorded though was a lyre and harp). This was a good source for information. Thanks clough:D:D:D

Hi again, BackFrumTheDead!

What do you mean by "first recorded though was a lyre and harp"?

Thanks!