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 (2)_______ what it sounded like. Watching a child (3)________ on a drum with its hands or a (4)_______ of wood, it is easy to see that this is the simplest of instruments. It does not (5)________ much effort to produce a rhythm on it.
Wall paintings show what some of the first instruments (6)________ like. Early civilizations had already discovered the three basic (7)________ of producing music: blowing into a tube, striking an object, and scraping a string.
We know that western music comes from the (8)________ Greeks. The musical scales we use now are (9)_________ on certain sequences of notes which the Greeks used to create a particular (10)_________.