Music history: Prehistory and Antiquity

When did music begin to exist?

• With the first program of OT

• When I was born

• Since the ukelele was invented

• Since the human being exists

What materials were used to make the first instruments?

• Metal, plastic and cloth

• Bones, sticks, canes, stones, palm leaves...

• Only wood

• Strings, canes, cardboard, rubber hens...

What happened to musicians if they were captured in battle in Mesopotamia?

• They asked to play happy songs

• They cut their hair

• They spared their lifes

• They gave them a sword and sent them to fight

How do we know about music in Egypt?

• They left pictures

• They recorded audio files

• They left us some instruments hidden behind the walls

• Music did’t exist in Egypt

In Greece they studied music at school.

• True

• False

• Only in Summer

• Only pets

In Prehistory music was used to...

• Join the group

• Communicate with ancestors

• Pray

• All answers are correct

How did music begin?

• Making birds sing and stepping on dinosaurs tails

• Imitating sounds of nature or in daily activities

• Crashing their heads together

• Chewing chewing-gums with the mouth open

In Prehistory music was thought to have...

• Magical and spiritual powers

• A never ending battery

• Fire coming from heaven

• Ears

Name a famous Prehistoric musician:

• I can’t

• Whistling Like Canary

• Bearman Clapping Sticks

• Whereare Myclothes

Romans music...

• Was as happy as a tambourine

• Was influenced by many cultures

• Had no instruments

• Was recorded with an ipad