Steven Schwarz

English 102

2/8/2012

Assignment 4b

So what I’m hoping to go about in my research paper is to explore the very beginning of music and how it came about.  The development from sound into music fascinates me because the human race had discovered that a certain series of tones makes a chord, and a certain progression of chords could make a pleasing little tune.  This phenomenon has clearly manifested into the monster that we know the music business to be today. 

            The majority of what I researched was music history, and sound in society.  I emailed the music librarian who promptly responded with this to say, “There are a lot of books in the Music Library about the history of music that go back as far as we can know. There's no way to really know the answer to your question about the origins of music because there is 
no systematic written record until about 1,000 years ago, 2,000 at the 
most, but music existed long before that. So anything you find would be 
largely speculation, not definitive description. I'd recommend starting with the New Grove Dictionary of Music.” Therefore I did start there. I do understand there are no definitive answers to my question, but that makes me all the more ambitious about find out what people have to say about the matter.