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Welcome to the Museum of
Music
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Hannah Winstel
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I am 13 years old. I live in Independence and Ft. Thomas. I play the clarinet in the
band.
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Mesopotamia
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Indus Valley
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Egypt
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China
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Greece
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Artifact 1
This instrument is called a lyre.
This lyre is from Mesopotamia.
Lyres was fashioned into a
shape of a bull. The bulls body
was the music box. Some had
horns and some didn’t.
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Artifact 2
These are some examples of
flutes that Mesopotamians
played. They were made out
of bones. They would of
played vertically instead of
horizontal.
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Artifact 3
Mesopotamians would have played
drum. Made from animal hide
stretched over wood. Tied with
string or yarn around the wood.
They would have put a hole in the
sides like in this photo so it would
not fall off.
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Artifact 4
When Mesopotamian musicians
would play but before they would
do so they would wash their hands.
This requirement would be for
stringed instruments.
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Artifact 5
This drum from the Indus
Valley was more well
designed than the
Mesopotamian drum. With
a mallet to hit it with. Holes
every side. This is to make
it on there securely.
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Artifact 6
The 2 main instruments that
came from India flute and
violin. These flutes where
made a little better than
Mesopotamian flutes is that
these you play horizontally.
Instead of vertically.
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Artifact 7
This is Sanskrit. It was copied
writing on paper it developed in this
civilization, Indus Valley. Sanskrit
vocalizing syllables is called
Sthobhakaras. They sang
Sthobhakaras for sacrifices for their
gods. These Sanskrit text where
often included with instruments in
folk music.
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Artifact 8
North India they used music
for times of the day or night
and seasons. India developed
in 500 BC -200BC tempo and
rhythm. They also developed
poems priest used in 1500BC500BC.
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Artifact 9
This is a picture of clappers
made in Egypt. Everyone
used them. If there was a
parade or festival citizens
would of used them. They are
made out of wood and looked
like arms.
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Artifact 10
In this picture is a group of
Egyptian women playing the
flutes. As you can see they are
playing the flutes horizontally.
Not vertically. The flutes have
many holes in them instead of
just 6 or 7 like the other
civilizations. There are also
have other instruments in this
photo.
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Artifact 11
Both female and male were in
Egyptian music. Professional
musicians existed on a number
social levels. Women were
frequently the high status. Some
music was accompanied by
dancers. They plucked stringed
instruments instead of using a bow.
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Artifact 12
Ranged from very simple such as percussion,
to complex harps. Barrel shape drums in the
Middle Kingdom. They made improvements on
instruments in the New Kingdom. Middle
kingdom invented drums. This material came
from tree trunks. Has more details on the drum
then the other civilizations.
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Artifact 13
In this picture shows a big drum
from China. This drum was used
for military, dancing, drama,
entertainment, and festivals.
Instruments were put inside tombs
that belong to musicians. Chinese
exchanged on silk road instruments
to one another.
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Artifact 14
Erhu ‘Chinese Violin’ – two stringed bowed
musical instrument. Over a thousand
years old. Horse head fiddle, erhu (just a
few). Most instrument made from hide,
clay, metal, stone (ground), wood, silk, and
bamboo. Chinese invented opera,
performed in theaters.
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Artifact 15
Chinese zither called guzheng. More than
18/23 strings with moveable bridges.
Quqin is part of the zither family, 7 stringed
instrument. The Chinese invented the
tipa, the flute, and the zither.
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Artifact 16
This instrument is called the sheng. The sheng
is one of the oldest vertical pipes. This
instrument is complicated to play, but, it is a
considered a huge accomplishment to learn
how to play the sheng. Singing and dancing
come into play in the Tang dynasty. Chimes
and Bells made for the royal family to enjoy.
This was created in the Xia, Shang, Zhou.
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Artifact 17
Music was important for religious festivals,
marriage, and funeral rights, and banquet
gatherings. Music accompanied songs
and poems. Music was an important
feature of religious festivals. Shepherds
piped to their flocks, oarsman and infantry
kept time to music, and women made
music at home.
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Artifact 18
This a Greek school where children come
to learn. Music was so important that it
was taught in schools. Every educated
man was expected to learn and play the
lyre. Greek philosophers saw a
relationship between music and
mathematics. Special hymns were given
at weddings, death and births.
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Artifact 19
This is Greek lyre. Greeks used special
features from animals like in this photo.
This lyre showed that they value animals.
Hymns were played for gods at all public
festivals.
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Artifact 20
People also played flutes or pipes. These
were made of bone of wood. Instrumental
music of the singing of hymns regularly
accompanied everyday activities or formal
acts of worship. The aulos, is a double
reed instrument that Greeks used.
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Artifact 21
Greek instruments accompanied
marriages. These marriages had special
hymns. At funerals they would play music
for the burial.
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Artifact 22
This neat and cool instrument is called the
water organ. The Romans used water to
pump force into a closed chamber. When
doing this, you would be compressing air
inside. This instrument had hand
operating valves. These valves would
signify when you turned on a note, and this
is how the instrument played.
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Artifact 23
This lyre was a Greek origin instrument.
The lyre was at gladiator shows. It
accompanied religious ceremonies. Reed
pipes and two bronze horns were on the
lyre.
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Artifact 24
This Roman is playing a flute. You can
play one or two (like in this photo).
Professional musicians and dancers
were usually slaves or freed men. The
instruments Romans usually played were
pipes, lyre, flutes, tambourines, and
cymbals.
Artifact 25
Instruments were usually played at
theaters at games. Musicians played in
a theater or private party. Music was
usually performed as part of theater
plays. Concerts were given as well.
Often in small theaters. These little
theaters were called an odeon.
Back Wall Artifact
This map is a map of Mesopotamia.
Mesopotamians were the first civilization.
If Mesopotamians didn’t invent the first
instruments then there would be none
today.
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