2. OLD AGES
• Music (greek: μουσική – art of the muses)
• Three parts of music are: melody, rhythm and harmony
• First shapes of music - paleolit
• First blown instrument was humans voice
• First string instrument probably was wooden arch
• First flautes are made from bird bones or from rattan
and could make only one tone
• First drum instrument was Xylophone
3. MEDIEVAL MUSIC
• The term medieval music encompasses European music written during the Middle
Ages, ends with fall of the Roman Empire
• Mostly church music and most important instrument was Pan flute, made of wood
• Many plucked string instruments, such as lute, viole, mandora, gittern and psaltery
4. MEDIEVAL MUSIC
• Christian church - Chant (or
plainsong), a monophonic
sacred form
• Jewish church – Psalms
• Troubadours and trouvères
• ARS NOVA - was a stylistic
period in music of the Late
Middle Ages, used more
generally and refers to all
European polyphonic music
• Transitioning to the
Renaissance
8. XX CENTURY
• 1876. Aleksander Graham Bel invented
phone speaker
•1876. Elisha Gray – first synthiseizer
• 1877. Thomas Alva Edison invented
phonograph (first machine ever for
recording sound)
• 1877. Cylinders are used for recordings
• 1877. Ernst Siemens patented first
loudspeaker
• 1923. First vinyl
• 1924. Chester W. Rice i Edvard
Washburn patented modern loudspeaker
• 1948. invention of 12” vinyls
9. ILLUSTRATIONS
Vinyl Firs loudspeaker First AM radio
shown in public
10. MODERN AGES
• 1952. Texas Instruments - first AM radio
• 1950. First computer music
• Philips and Sony:
• 1963. invented Audio Cassete
• 1982. invented CD
• 1968. Robert Moog – commercial
synthiseizer
• 1985. CD players, discman, walkman
• 1989. mp3 was patented
• 1991. MP3 approved from ISO/IEC
• 1999. mp3 players