We finally arrived in this series of articles to the point where the specialization in the production of sounds with the voice and other materials lead man to the first abstraction: " the world responds to my actions, therefore I handle the world " .
Primitive man began to associate ideas a little further than the rest of the animals. He could abstract from his animal world and from the constant struggle for its conservation to give way to an abstract belief but belief at the end: his production of sounds (something invisible) created a change in his environment. The sounds protected him from other beasts and also fed him, the world responded to his sounds with other sounds or warned him of upcoming events. It was a leap in the evolution of thought and a leap in social evolution. The imitators of animals or those who with percussive sounds frightened predators, were not only necessary for daily life but they managed an "abstract and invisible" world where they could communicate with something or someone who was beyond the visible.
Thus another social scale was born: the "spiritual guide", "witch doctor" or "priest" who was communicated with another world and began to use the production of sounds for that communication with a "beyond", meanwhile the imitators lost their social category and were behind these guides who were as essential as the "boss". The strongest that protected the community in the "more here" and the "sorcerer" that protected the community in the "beyond".
With this leap of thought man changed his future forever, however many thousands of years would be missing for the first civilizations to appear, but music had a transformation in its daily use that is the theme that we bring in this blog.
About the Author:
My name is Gabriel Beguerie, I'm a Music Teacher and Piano Teacher in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Currently I work at the Luis Gianneo Provincial Conservatory and the Art No. 1 High School.
Passionate about History in general and the History of Music in particular.
Contact: gabriel.arturo.beguerie@gmail.com
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