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modern music history

 In 1800s the world accepted western theory(Europe) as a standard theory for everyone, like English in languages which everybody should know to communicate with people from another countries. Thomas Symmes in 1720 developed singing by note, which means the throat is an instrument which has to hit the notes like every other instruments. It had started be popular in church anthems, but later it went worldwide and after many evaluations we have pop stars who also sing by a note for example: Adele. In 19th century the music theory stopped to develop, but what people did with their instruments especially in metal shows that sometimes the sound of instrument and sound style of singing and notes is enough, because there are a lot of people who listen to music to show their style and not for the beatiful pack of notes and this proves that music theory and singing beautifully with hitting the note is not that important as the style of sounds that an artists have. https://study.com/learn/les...
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MHistory of music theory part 2

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 In the first millennium music theory was developing the most in China, Arabic countries and Europe, but music theory which we know these days is theory books mostly from Greece and Europe. China invented Pipa which is sth like the first guitar, because of fredboard and strings, we could say that other instruments with strings are the fathers of guitar, but I think sth can't be the first guitar without the fredboard. In 1028 in Europe established the official form of music theory: Mensural notation which is known to this day and it is thought at music universities and used in classical music to this day. This is the rhytm system and from 1028 there have been only few changes in it. Arabic countries also knew that we have twelve notes in one chromatic scale, so we can state that the fact we have 12 notes in scale an invention formed by scolars form Greece, but the real differences of sounds which makes music good to listen. pipa-
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music theory history part 1 of 2

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 History of music theory. Today I have learned about the first music notes. First instruments(flutes) we can notice in the prehistory for example. First notes we can see in Mezopothamia, but this are mainly lists of intervals and tunings and the songs are not very extensive, well sounding and suitable to music theory. We can notice that also in India, China and a little bit later in Arabic countries, but at this time in Greece the real birth of music is taking a place. First professors of music invented a notation,scales, rhytms and types of compositions which we use till today. One of the music theorist is Phytagoras and a lot of books are created which tells us about the harmonic rhytms and mathematic in music, but also wonder about what music really is and reflecting on music philosophically. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199757824/obo-9780199757824-0199.xml https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrwvgIr2F-ClpkoexcLq_8pf-hSh-bMykLdV_HA0...
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Does theory mean anything?

 Today I have read the article about famous musicians who didn't study music theory. I can say that in rap it is daily basis, but in classical music or jazz it is absent. We can see a few examples of not studying music theory and being famous musician in rock and it is not easy to compose rock style. The most recognizable ranking of the guitarist on the first two places we have guitarist who never studied music theory and I consider this funny, but I think that in this list they rated them by looking at innovation, originality and artisty, so I think I would not be wrong if I say that theory music in some way limits your style and expression which you give to people by playing an instrument. This artists are Eric Clapton and Jimmy Hendrix, so the artists that are considered as musicians who changed the direction of rock development, because they did something new, because they had fresh minds. https://www.quora.com/Are-famous-musicians-knowledgeable-in-music-theory-before-they-main...
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Today I learned why rock in the 90s started to sounds boring. In the mid of the 70s in Punk and in the 90s for the whole Rock. The fashion for barre chords has arrived. Barre chords are the same chords in different positions, so its just hand movement and as we know moving a hand is not particularly difficult. A lot of people said that was the end of the originality and artistic of the rock music. At the beginning it probably sounded cool, but in the 80s and 90s every song sounded the same. Example of this invasion is Nirvana and Curt Cobain who is known as a king of barre chords. To make music with barre chords you dont have to know music theory and even play the instrument. In my opinion that why rock started to sound boring and there were not that many interesting innovations anymore like the beatles or pink floyd.  https://youtu.be/zimMEiSWGx0 <-barre chords
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theory in rap

 Rap is one of the easiest type of music to make, because you have to know completely nothing about music theory. Sampling is the basis of the rap and relies on taking pieces of songs and combining them with anbother pieces and mixing them or sometimes only take the main riff and rap to it like in one of the most recognizable rap songs of all time in witch rapper take the whole riff from shape of my heart written by Sting.    https://youtu.be/3DqsnpSUMrE?si=SNqe5DwRpaXKGMs7 Usually rappers take their inspiration from jazz and rock, because rap become famous in the late 90s and in some way eliminated jazz and rock, pieces of which it contains and was created. In rap you don't have to know even how to sing, you only must have a talent to "flow" which means that you can sing quickly without changing the sound of your voice and it sounds cool. https://youtu.be/jso4qlM9SGw?si=u_lyV9pCJeFES7dr https://youtu.be/cREeQbQyf4Q?si=6EQM-axWaHCA-EOa
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combining isntruments

 Today I,ve watched a film about how to combine instruments so that the sounds suit each other. A lot of instruments can play rhytm and usually there is the one instrument which is playing lead part. Most often rhytm sounds are just chords. Every chord has his own bag of notes which suits him, so it is not rocket science to make music. When the lead instrument plays to the rhytm it is called solo. In rock music it almost always guitar solo and rhytm guitar at the background playing chords, so this is the reason why every rock band has as many guitars(to play solos).    https://youtu.be/Bl2iXQwzIRg?si=VjMqXmaKkjRPpKx1 We can see in this short film Joe welsh is soloing on his guitar to the background which is made by his band with using suitable chords to bag of notes which he is playing in one moment. In jazz we can see usually saxophone soiloing with the background that is given by lots of instruments. And iI think it is the best example. ->  https://youtu.be/louX...
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