History of Music

Music is found in every known culture, past and present, varying widely between times and places. It began with the dawn of man when human's used beats to emulate that of a heart beat.

Prehistoric music refers to all music that existed in preliterate cultures. This means any music that is too old to be documented falls under this category. There is no real time frame for music in this period, considering it is far too old to know when it began or exactly when it ended.

Ancient music was said to have birthed with the invention of writing and refers to the very first recorded instances of musical compositions, dated 3400 years ago.

Early music refers to the European style of music that came about after the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD up until the 18th Century.

Following this was the Modern era of music which includes several sub-periods of western cultural music.

Once the digitalisation of music began with the format of the radio in the early 20th century, music was revolutionised, and new technologies were being invented to record, distribute and reproduce music constantly. Visual aspects were also beginning to be integrated more and more with the production of music videos and concerts.

Once Musical amplification and electronic devices were being fused with instruments in the mid-20th century, the development of new forms of music was accelerated and is still to this day being experimented with.