MUSIC

Nobody knows for certain what the origin of music was. Music is certainly older than poetry and painting but as early man had no way of (1) _________ it, we can only guess what it sounded like. Watching a child (2) _________ on drum with his hands or a piece of wood, it is easy to see that this is the simplest of instruments. It does not (3) _________ much effort to product a rhythm on it.

Wall paintings show what some of the first instrument looked like. Early civilizations has already discovered the three basic (4) _________ of producing music: blowing into a tube, striking an object, and scraping a string. We know that western music comes from the (5) _________ Greeks. The musical scales we use now are (6) _________ on certain sequences of notes which the Greeks used to create a particular (7) _________.

Until the sixteenth century, most players of instruments were performers, but as music became more (8) _________, orchestras and musical groups began to (9) _________.This (10) _________ about the writing of music to be played by several musicians at one time. This can certainly be called the birth of modern music.