Continuing with this prehistoric stage, the environment greatly conditioned the human production of sounds.
Today we can see that all cultures have a wide range of percussion instruments and this has been due to the above. Regarding the different systems of scales that are not the same with respect to the East and the West as well as in some other Western cultures, the importance of the environment that surrounded these prehistoric communities as conditioning factors for the production of sounds must be highlighted.
As we mentioned in previous articles, the imitation of animals through the voice were the rudiments of music and therefore this use of the voice was conditioned by the feeding of the community. This diet was reduced to the type of fauna of the place where these communities developed. A community or group in Africa would never have the same needs as a community in America or in Europe. The climates are different, the fauna and the vegetation differ, therefore none of them would share sounds in common. So also in the same continent, no one would hesitate to say that living on a mountain or on a beach there may be common sounds.
In any case, being nomadic, these first communities were supposed to have different sounds according to the area and thus expanded their sound spectrum, but not so much to combine a single sound system with other very distant communities.
Although it seems boring to stay on this topic (I promise that there will not be many more articles) is essential to understand the history of music that would come later because music was not created by a matter of leisure and abstraction but by a fundamental need to survive.
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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