Although definitions of vary wildly throughout the world, every known culture partakes in it, and it is thus considered a cultural universal. The origins of remain highly contentious; commentators often relate it to the origin of language, with much disagreement surrounding whether music arose before, after or simultaneously with language. Many theories have been proposed by scholars from a wide range of disciplines, civilizations—ancient —was present in the major Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Persian, Mesopotamian, and Middle Eastern societies. It is difficult to make many generalizations about ancient music as a whole, but from what is known it was often characterized by monophony and improvisation. In ancient song forms, the texts were closely aligned with music, and though the oldest extant musical notation survives from this period, many texts survive without their accompanying music, such as the Rigveda and the Shijing Classic of Poetry. The eventual emergence of the Silk Road and increasing contact between cultures led to the transmission and exchange of musical ideas, practices, and instruments. Such interaction led to theHistorically, religions have often been catalysts for The Vedas of Hinduism immensely influenced Indian classical , and the Five Classics of Confucianism laid the basis for subsequent Chinese Following the rapid spread of Islam in the 6th century, Islamic dominated Persia and the Arab world, and the Islamic Golden Age saw the presence of numerous important music theorists. Music written for and by the early Christian Church properly inaugurates the Western classical tradition,which continues into medieval where polyphony, staff notation and nascent forms of many modern instruments developed. In addition to religion or the lack thereof, a society’s music is influenced by all other aspects of its culture, including social and economic organization and experienceclimate, and access to technology
- Music arose to fulfill a practical WAY Propositions include
