

Throughout these years, much of this music was only ever heard and not notated.

And during the Song dynasty – an era of Chinese history beginning in 960AD - music blossomed in the form of Nanxi, a type of opera combining folk songs and ballads. In ancient Celtic culture, music was used as a weapon to terrify opponents in battle the trumpet-like Carnyx delivering a powerfully disturbing cry on the battlefield.

In ancient Egypt, music was consumed in ceremonies, on the battlefield, in burial chambers and on farms. The existence of music has been a matter of fact for thousands of years.Īncient civilisations show evidence that music was an integral part of human existence, even thousands of years ago.
