MUSIC

• HISTORY OF MUSIC
HISTORY OF MUSIC
Music is found in all known cultures, past and present, which vary widely between
times and places. Since all the people of the world, including the most isolated tribal
groups, have a form of music, it can be concluded that music has probably been
present in the ancestral population before the dispersion of human beings all over the
world. Consequently, music may have existed for at least 55,000 years and the first
music could have been invented in Africa and then evolved to become a fundamental
component of human life.

The music of a culture is influenced by all other aspects of that culture, including
social and economic organization and experience, climate and access to technology.
Emotions and ideas expressed by music, situations in which music is reproduced and
listened to, and attitudes towards musicians and composers vary according to regions
and periods. .
DISCO MUSIC
Disco music or simply Disco is a genre of dance music derived from rhythm and
blues that mixed elements of previous characters, such as soul and funk, with Latin
touches in many cases, and which was popularized in the nightclubs (nightclubs) in
the second half of the 1970s.
Pop music dominated the music scene until the beginning of the "disco", in the
first half of the 70s. The disco songs were usually structured on a repetitive 4/4
beat, marked by a figure of Charles, eight or sixteen times, with hi open in the free
times, and a predominant line of syncopated bass, with strongly reverberated
voices. They are easily recognizable by their repetitive rhythms (usually between
110 and 136 bpms per minute) and catchy, often inspired by rhythms of Latin origin
such as merengue, rumba or samba. The use of the open hi-hat at a 4/4 rhythm is
clearly perceived in songs like "The Love I Lost", by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
in 1973, a production by Gamble and Huff, and the drummer responsible for
presenting that Seal was Earl Young from the Philly Records session band, MFSB.
ROCK MUSIC

• Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the
United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the
1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States. It has its
roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style which drew heavily on the African-
American genres of blues and rhythm and blues, and from country music. Rock music also
drew strongly on a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and
incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical styles. Musically, rock has
centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass and
drums and one or more singers. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4
time signature using a verse–chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse.
Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other
themes that are frequently social or political.
JAZZ MUSIC
• Jazz is a musical genre born in the late nineteenth century in the United States, which
expanded globally throughout the twentieth century.

• The musical identity of jazz is complex and can not be easily delimited. First, although the term
is used to refer to a musical language, jazz is actually a family of musical artists who share
common characteristics, but who do not individually represent the complexity of the genre as a
whole; second, its various "social functions" (jazz can serve as background music for meetings
or as dance music, but certain types of jazz require concentrated attention); it requires a
different angle of study; and third, the racial issue has always generated a deep debate about
jazz, shaping its reception by the public. While jazz is a product of African-American culture, it
has always been open to influences from other musical traditions, and since the 1920s has
been played by musicians from different parts of the world with a very different background.
Sometimes, it has been demonstrated as a paradigm of jazz, the work of musicians with greater
commercial success, that fans and critics have been considered by-products far from tradition,
understanding, on the contrary, that jazz is a form of black music , in which African-Americans
have been its greatest innovators and its most notable representatives.
BLUES MUSIC
• The blues (whose meaning is melancholy or sadness) is a vocal and instrumental musical genre, based
on the use of blues notes and a repetitive pattern, which usually follows a twelve-bar structure.
Originally from the African-American communities in the southern United States at the beginning of the
20th century; for the sixties this genre becomes one of the most important influences for the
development of American and Western popular music, becoming part of musical genres such as
ragtime, jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, funk , heavy metal, hip-hop, country and pop
music.

• This genre was developed through spiritual, prayer songs, work songs, English rhymes, Scottish and Irish
ballads narrated and field shouts. The use of blues notes and the importance of call and response
patterns, both in music and in lyrics, are indicative of the African-Western heritage of this genre. A
characteristic feature of the blues is the extensive use of the "expressive" techniques of the guitar
(bend, vibrato, slide) and the harmonica (cross harp), which later would influence solo styles such as
rock. The blues songs are more lyrical than narrative; The singer tries to express feelings instead of
telling stories, where emotions such as sadness or melancholy usually manifest, often due to problems
in love. This is achieved musically, using vocal techniques such as «the melisma (sustain a single syllable
through several pitches), rhythmic techniques such as syncopation and instrumental techniques such as
drowning or bending guitar strings on the neck or applying a metallic slide or neck from bottle to guitar
strings to create a moaning sound ».
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