At this point, man began to generate sounds ordered with the voice to accompany the percussion. Surely, when entering these "trance states" and having generated a particular state of mind, he began to sing.
The song was always linked to the sounds of the surrounding environment. So much so that to this day we can appreciate that the different cultures that have developed over the centuries have had different height of sounds according to the place where they lived.This is because the reverberance and the animals that live in a desert are not the same as a forest or a plain or perhaps between mountains.
The eastern scales where deserts abound, the steppes and large mountainous areas have in general a wider variety of chromaticism than the western scales where forests and forests are more common. The climate and therefore the fauna and vegetation have infused different types of scales and sounds throughout the globe.
Music from its beginning of direct utility and then as indirect utility has always been related to the environment that surrounded man. Never a man could imitate the sound of a camel in the Amazon because he did not even know of its existence as well as a man accustomed to the desert will never have known the echo or could percussion on a hollow trunk because the vegetation is very scarce.
While certain environments provided a few notes of reverberance and harmonics, in other more desert environments many chromatisms developed due to the low reverberation of sound.
Also these first songs were fed by the music of other nearby communities in the case of men who lived in forests, jungles and other environments rich in vegetation and fauna which gave a faster propagation of music than in more extreme climates or environments more rigorous for hunting, where the communities were scarce and more closed therefore the propagation and mixing of music was very slow to the point that in the East the difference between relatively close cultures is still clear and in the West music has globalized.
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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