The History Of Music

The History of Music

My report is going to be the history of music. It will include the different types of
music from the periods and the major composers from each period in time. I will be
talking about the music from
Greek
Most of the music from ancient Greece is known mostly through literature that
would talk about people singing and instruments being played rather than through
actual written music. In Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey there were many references to
music. There were hymns to praise Apollos, and music was said to have great power
or ethos over human beings. One instrument refered to in documents is the Kithara,
which was plucked and said to be played by Apollo (the god of the Sun and of reason).
The Aulos was was a loud double reeded instrument which was played by Dionysus
(the god of wine and ecstatic revelry). The most important mythical musicians was
Orpheus, whose music was said to have the power to make inanimate objects move
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