When the man, through observation, begins to understand the environment that surrounds him and learns to cultivate plants, it is when he leaves his condition as a nomad.
Those days in which his life was ruled by the migrations of animals leaving behind his wandering life and settling in a propitious place to cultivate and in turn developed a deep-rooted culture to his place are over.
It was then that music ceased to have a real use to become a means of cultivating his inner life. The hunting was not used but temporarily.
Everything learned during centuries of using sounds as part of a strategy to hunt and that due to the nomadic life could not be developed permanently, with sedentary lifestylecould be achieved.
The thought of man evolved to another level: he could cultivate but the plants were already cultivated "on their own" long before they had figured out how to do it. Something or someone had cultivated these plants for centuries. All these observations showed that someone had been there forever and a belief was created about this assumption.
In this way the "witch doctor" of the tribes begins to have another role: the link between that omnipresent and omnipotent entity with the real world. The first religions are born.
Music begins to be part of that religious world and that new sedentary social world.
The first civilizations left behind the errant and wild prehistoric life, for a new stage of rooting and maintenance modifying nature with the help of the "gods".
This is how the first cultures were created, with everything learned in the prehistoric stage. The music would be developed totally linked to the environment that surrounded this new stage. Thus the music of the civilizations that lived in mountainous terrain, would be completely different to those that resided in the desert, or forests, meadows, near the sea or far from it. And the instruments (made with materials from the area) would give a more particular touch to these cultures.
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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