Pamela Abegail C.

Monsanto October 9, 2018

Grade 11- Innovativeness Rating:

How does Music that Almost Everybody Love Came About?

I love music. It’s my hobby and something I enjoy doing. I’m pretty sure everybody does.

Who doesn’t? We are just divided according to our own music preference. But still, it’s music,

regardless of the genre. Music is an expression of one’s self, emotion, and feelings towards

something or someone. According to the google dictionary, “Music is a vocal or instrumental

sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression

of emotion.” That’s why usually, when we could relate to the song we listen to, we tend to be

emotional about it.

Music was compared to poetry in an article online, it says that you write based on your

thoughts or feelings. When you write poetry, you want people to know how you feel, or what

you think. You want to convey what you are feeling, and to invoke a particular emotion. With

music this is true, with speech this is true, and with poetry this is true.

Everything aside, though everyone loves music, does everyone knows how music was

introduced and where it came from? No. Music came from the Greek word mousa which means

‘muse’ to also a Greek term mousike tekhne that translates to ‘art of the muses’ to Old French

phrase musique and finally, to its present Middle English name, music.

Despite the general assumption that the Greeks invented music and have given its name,

Dr. Iraj Golsorokhi maintains that music existed since the day men began to speak. There is

perfectly no founder of music. It existed from the Stone Age to Medieval Era up until now, the
Modern Age. Archeologists have discovered some Paleolithic flutes that are made up of bones at

that time which gave straight notes. That explains that our ancestors were also obsessed with

music. As far as modern music is concerned, it was founded by Lawrence Berk. He gave birth to

music like Jazz, Rock, and Heavy metal.

Music has been with us since ages. It just got developed from culture to culture and ages

to ages. And from bone flutes, to Greek vases of tunes to Japanese and Chinese tunes or Indian

(Shashtra Sangeet). Music was never created, it was existent from the start, just developed and

experimented through.

Could you imagine a world without music? A completely soundless world. Music doesn’t

just revolve on songs, voices, and instruments. The sound around us, from the nature, from the

surroundings, and even from us is music. Without it, the world would be silent, dull, and boring.

That is because music makes things beautiful, artistic, and expressive.