WHAT

IS MUSIC? (Lucas)

è In general Music is the art of arranging sounds in time through the elements of melody,
harmony, rhythm, and timbre.

EVOLUTION OF MUSIC

è 1900’s (nineteen hundreds) — Operas (Billie)

Opera comes from Greece which was later developed in Europe. Starting from the performance of
plays including the works of Aeschyulus, Sophocles, and Euripides, in a theater building. Scenes in
the play are accompanied by chorus and music, which are also used to amplify or emphasize the
piece of story that is being played.

The forerunner of modern Opera appeared in Italy around the 16-17th (sixteenth until seventeenth)
century in the city of Florence. At that time a number of intellectuals often gathered in Count Bardi's
private room which later formed a small community called Cameratta. This community sees the
emotional power of music combined with words.

1920’s (nineteen twenties) — Jazz (Billie)

Started in the late 19th (nineteenth) and early 20th (twentieth) centuries, jazz has its musical roots
in New Orleans, Louisiana where it combines American and European classical music with African
and slave folk songs with a touch of West African culture. The content of the music has also evolved
over the course of hundred and fifty years in the form of different subgenres.

The music gained in popularity during the Jazz Age, 1920s (nineteen twenties) and 1930s (nineteen
thirties) where it affected the cultural landscape in political, social, and economic experiences. The
Jazz Age ran parallel to the “Roaring Twenties”, a period during the 1920s (nineteen twenties) where
there was a movement of achieving economic prosperity after the end of War World I.

1940’s (nineteen fourties) — Country (Wita)

Originally country music shared structural similarities with folk tales. The performances were usually
live and the songs and instrumentation would vary depending on the geographical location.
Listening to traditional country music allowed one to learn about the history and culture of that
area, making it a very personal genre that proved hard to make accessible on a large scale.

Musicians who studied and drew upon these traditional tunes began to pop-up over time, creating
fusions between the styles of different regions. It wasn’t until the 1920’s (nineteen twenties) these
musicians such as Fiddlin’ John Carson and Jimmie Rodgers were given an opportunity to record
their music.

1950’s (nineteen fifties) — Blues (Wita)

The blues has deep roots in American history, particularly African-American history. The blues
originated on Southern plantations in the 19th (nineteenth) Century. Its inventors were slaves, ex-
 slaves and the descendants of slaves—African-American sharecroppers who sang as they toiled in
the cotton and vegetable fields. It's generally accepted that the music evolved from African
spirituals, African chants, work songs, field hollers, rural fife and drum music, revivalist hymns, and
country dance music.The blues grew up in the Mississippi Delta just upriver from New Orleans, the
birthplace of jazz. Blues and jazz have always influenced each other, and they still interact in
countless ways today.

2000’s (two thousands) — Hip-hop (Anggi)

When hip hop music first developed in the late 1970s (nineteen seventies), not many people knew
about it. It was created in the poorest districts of New York City by African American and Latino
teenagers as part of a hip hop scene that also produced breakdancing and graffiti art. Many of these
young people were unemployed, but some found work as DJs in discos where they learned
deejaying techniques like how to use two turntables and a DJ mixer to play records non-stop.
Sometimes they'd also deejay at free block parties in their neighbourhoods where they'd play funk
and disco tracks non-stop and ask a friend to act as their MC.

The MC would introduce the DJ and encourage everyone to dance and have a good time. Some MCs
tried to be more entertaining by talking in time to the beat of the music and using rhymes, and by
doing this they invented rapping.

2010’s (twenty ten) — Pop (Anggi)

During the mid to late 19th (nineteenth) century, many households gathered around the pianos in
their homes and enjoyed hearing members of their family play music. This is where we can trace the
beginnings to pop music as we know it. To meet the demand for sheet music, the publishing
industry was established.

They were looking for popular artists and printed their music for sale, making it available for other
musicians to perform. In the early 1900s (nineteen hundreds) when the phonograph was introduced,
this evolved to listening to recorded performances, kickstarting physical sales of music.

VARIOUS GENRES OF MUSIC


1. Classical (Mikael)

Classical music generally refers to the formal musical tradition of the Western world, considered to
be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as
Western classical music, as the term "classical music" may also refer to non-Western traditions
which exhibit similar formal qualities. In addition to formality, classical music is often characterized
by complexity in its musical form and harmonic organization, particularly with the use of polyphony.

According to Dr. North's research, classical lovers are creative, introverted, and show high self-
esteem; they see listening as a theatrical experience and share a mutual “love of the grandiose”
with metal fans, though they tend to be older and make more money.

 There are many Great Classical composers, such as: Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Ludwig
van Beethoven, and more.

2. Jazz (Mikael)

Jazz is a kind of music in which improvisation is typically an important part. In most jazz
performances, players play solos which they make up on the spot, which requires considerable skill.

Jazz music exploded as popular entertainment in the 1920s (nineteen twenties) and brought African-
American culture to the white middle class.

Jazz started to lose its popularity long before the 90s (nineties). The only time jazz has been a widely
popular music is during the Swing Era.

There is many famous singer that is sing jazz including Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, John
Coltrane.

3. Blues (Nadine)

Blues is a type or genre of music that began to emerge at the end of the 19th (nineteenth) century.
Blues music itself comes from the Deep South, United States which is the development of folk music
and African traditional music. Many famous singer that comes from one of those country like
b.b.king, muddy watters and Robert johnson.

This Blues music genre does have a close relationship with ritual and spiritual songs typical of African
traditions.

At first, it was said that the word Blues was used as an abbreviation of Blue Devils, which means
melancholy and sadness, the earliest use of the term in this sense is found in George Colman S.

The Blues genre is based on the Blues form but has other characteristics such as certain lyrics,
instruments and bass lines. Blues can be divided into several subgenres ranging from country to
urban blues which were more or less popular.

4. Pop (Nadine)

Pop music is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s (nineteen
fifties) , deriving from rock and roll. The terms popular music and pop music are often used
interchangeably, even though the former is a description of music which is popular.

Pop music may include elements of rock, hip hop, dance, R&B, jazz, electronic, and sometimes folk
music and various other styles.

There is many artist that mastered one of those characteristics like Taylor Swift, BTS, Ariana Grande,
Conan Gray, Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran and many more.

5. Rock (Lucas)

Rock music is a diverse genre of music characterized by extensive use of the electric guitar. Rock is a
way to express the feeling, generally a strong feeling. It uses iconic instruments like electric Guitar,
drums, and sometimes chaotic screams.

Maybe more than any other genre, rock is defined by a single instrument the electric guitar. Before
rock, electric guitars played a minor role, mostly as a backing instrument for large jazz bands. But
throughout the early 1900s (nineteen hundreds) they became more and more popular with blues
musicians.

There are many rock bands around the globe, like the beatles, queen or Gun N Roses. Nearly every
rock band has its own style of composition. Because of this, many sub genres of Rock has been
evolved over the decades.

6. Rap (Billie)

Rap, musical style in which rhythmic or rhyming speech is chanted to musical accompaniment. This
backing music, which can include digital sampling, is also called hip-hop, the name used to refer to a
broader cultural movement that includes rap, deejaying, graffiti painting, and break dancing. Rap,
which originated in African American communities in New York City, came to national prominence
with the Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight”

Rap’s early stars included Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run-D.M.C., LL Cool J, Public
Enemy, and the Beastie Boys. The late 1980s (nineteen eighties) saw the advent of “gangsta rap,”
with lyrics that were often misogynistic or that glamorized violence and drug dealing. Later stars
include Diddy, Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, OutKast, Eminem, Kanye West, and Lil Wayne. Fans of this genre
usually range from teenagers to adults but there are also some kids who love rap and have even
composed their own songs.


FINAL THOUGHTS (Lucas)

Music is such a huge thing in our life. There was never a day where we didn’t listen to music. The
power of music intrigues us. It can make you feel anything. I’ve always been a person who
understood my surroundings based on a feeling or emotion. Each song is a whole book on its own. It
tells its own story. But of course each genre of music is different, and how about the genre music
itself, is it alive? Or maybe are people still listening? The answer is yes. People still listening to each
of genres that we already talking about before, theres many type of person in this earth that likes
different genre of music and have their own taste of music and of course since people still listening
to each genre that we already talking about, every genres of music is still alive.