Music and Culture. Flashcards
“Music was developed to attract the opposite sex.”
CHARLES DARWIN
“Music was developed to express emotions just like
language developed to express ideas.”
HERBERT SPENCER
“Music, unlike other arts, could exist quite independent for the
visible world.”
RICHARD WAGNER
“Music is a decisive means to form a man’s character.
Music should be placed as the center of all educational
endeavors.”
JOHANN WOLFGANG
GOETHE
“Music serves as a medium through which individuals will be
acquainted with the various aspects of life, being perspicuous
reflections of humanity through ages.”
ROBERT NYE
English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best
known for his contributions to evolutionary
biology. His proposition that all species of life
have descended from a common ancestor is now
widely accepted and considered a fundamental
concept in science.
12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882
CHARLES DARWIN
English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, and
sociologist famous for his hypothesis of social
Darwinism. Spencer originated the expression
“survival of the fittest”, which he coined in
Principles of Biology after reading Charles
Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
The view of music as a transmitter of
emotions spread throughout Europe and
influenced other fields. Herbert Spencer, the
English philosopher and biologist, concluded
that “primitives” developed the capacity for
music specifically as a means of
communicating their state of being.
HERBERT SPENCER
German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and
conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or,
as some of his mature works were later known,
“music dramas”). Unlike most opera composers,
Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for
each of his stage works.
22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883
RICHARD WAGNER
German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre
director, and critic. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is perhaps best
known for The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), the first novel of
the Sturm und Drang movement, and for Faust (Part I, 1808; Part II,
1832), a play about a man who sells his soul to the Devil that is
sometimes considered Germany’s greatest contribution to world
literature.
28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832
JOHANN WOLFGANG
GOETHE
English poet and author.[1] His bestselling novel Falstaff, published in
1976, was described by Michael Ratcliffe (writing in The Times) as
“one of the most ambitious and seductive novels of the decade”, and
went on to win both The Hawthornden Prize and Guardian Fiction
Prize. The novel was also included in Anthony Burgess’ 99 Novels:
The Best in English Since 1939 (1984).
15 March 1939 – 2 July 2016
ROBERT NYE
viewed it as an accompaniment for their story telling or the
chanting of a verse. Music also came in handy during
religious ceremonies. They also make use of music as a tool
for war, using trumpets and horns as signal to call their allies.
Any rituals that the _ displayed cult-like
characteristics, prayers and hymns played a common role. In
the end, some of these writings would become influential
works of literature.
Babylonians
which pays homage to the sun
god. Throughout the 200-line composition, the following
lines were used:
“The far mountains are capped by thy brilliance,
Thy glow fills the entirety of lands,
Thou dost ascend the highlands to view the earth,
The perimeter of lands in the heavens thou dost weigh.”
Hymn to Shamash
a native or inhabitant of ancient Babylonia or Babylon.
Babylonia, ancient cultural region occupying
southeastern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers (modern southern Iraq from
around Baghdad to the Persian Gulf). Because the city
of Babylon was the capital of this area for so many
centuries, the term Babylonia has come to refer to the
entire culture that developed in the area from the time it was
first settled, about 4000 BCE.
BABYLONIANS
There are depictions of instruments of all kinds, including
string, wind and percussion. The hieroglyphs also show
those listening to music clapping their hands along with the
performances.
musical instruments found buried with the
dead often have the names of the_ gods Hathor and
Bes, who were the gods of music, inscribed on them.
Egyptians
egyptian gods of music
Hathor and Bes
are persons who regard themselves as culturally,
ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.
Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical,
cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the
Indian subcontinent.
are the world’s third largest group after Christians and
Muslims.
HINDUS
