As a corollary of these stories about the birth of music and musical instruments, we must highlight the relationship between the instruments of war and hunting with musical instruments.
From different primitive weapons different musical instruments are born:
From different primitive weapons different musical instruments are born:
Garrote - The percussion.
Blowgun - Wind instruments.
Arch - String instruments.
This relationship that is not capricious of the writer but of history itself can give us an indication of the usefulness of music in prehistory as we said in the previous sections.Hunting or war has a close relationship with musical instruments and therefore with music itself.
This relationship, when we go much deeper into the history of humanity we will see that it is not casual the existence of military bands, the use of drums in the armies until the nineteenth century and many other data that we will be deciphering.
The music itself is not an abstract entity devoid of a medium that gives sustenance and containment. All art is provided with great historical content and in turn provides content to the events that took place. It is a continuous feedback between facts and culture, a snowball that, while lowering the historic mountain, becomes an avalanche.
So the purpose of this blog is to provide a general context to understand the history of music, understand why Beethoven is Beethoven or Mozart is Mozart and that there is a story that sustains his creations and not that they come from some magical and unknown place.
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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