Review: Ancient Music
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1.
Define Primitive or Prehistoric music
2. How did primitive people experiment with music?
3. What is the first known instrument?
4. Prehistory means:
5. What year did humans develop written language?
6. What happened to music after written language was developed?
7. From what year to what year does “Ancient Music” fall?
8. Western Music evolved from what culture?
9. Name three of Egypt’s advancements.
10. Was music important to the Egyptians? How did they use music?
11. Egyptian music was based on a scale – how many tones?
12. Mesopotamia lies where what country is now?
13. What does liturgical mean?
14. What does Antiphonal mean?
15. What is the Ur tablet?
16. When were the 1st musical scales recorded?
17. How many tones did the first scale have?
18. How did the Greeks relate to the natural world?
19. The Greeks thought music came from whom?
20. Greeks thought music influenced what?
21. Aristotle discovered what?
22. Pythagoras discovered what?
23. Aristoxemus discovered what?
24. Fall of the Roman Empire – what happened to the music?
25. What makes Western music sound western? At least three qualities.