Educación Secundaria para Personas Adultas 2módulo - aulAragon

Unit 5: Entertainment
B: MUSIC
Music is an artistic form of sound communication via musical instruments that produce sounds and tones.
Music is as old as mankind.
All cultures past and present have music. The "oldest known song" dates back 4,000 years ago and was
written in ancient cuneiform. It is not certain how or when the first musical instrument was invented. But
most historians point to early flutes made from animal bones that are at least 37,000 years old. Below you
can read about the stories of some popular musical instruments. (Adapted from Wikipedia)
Recent excavations at the Neolithic site in Henan, China, discovered six bone
flutes between 7,000 and 9,000 years old. They may be the earliest complete
musical instrument.
Charles Wheatstone invented the accordion in 1829. The accordion is played by
pressing and expanding the air bellows
Invented around 1690, the clarinet is a single-reed woodwind instrument with a
cylindrical tube. The clarinet evolved from an earlier instrument called the
chalumeau, the first true single reed instrument.
The saxophone was invented by a Belgian manufacturer, Adolphe Sax (1814 -
1894) and exhibited to the world for the first time at the 1841 Brussels exhibition.
The trumpet has a long and rich history. It was used in Ancient Egypt and Greece
but it was later when the trumpet began to be considered a musical instrument.
During the 14th - 15th century the trumpet acquired its present form and
produced "harmonic" tones.
The piano first known as the pianoforte developed from the harpsichord around
1720, by Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua, Italy, who was employed by Ferdinando
de' Medici, as the Keeper of the Instruments.
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