What is instrumental music
What is instrumental music
Any music is called instrumental,played with the help of musical instruments. Its important feature is the lack of a vocal part. Under this word can understand various electronic works, the main thing is that they do not have a human voice.
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All the music played on the instruments,so diverse that it is difficult to describe it in a few words. It can be ensemble, orchestral and solo. Among the genres in which tools are used, one can name classics, jazz, post-rock, various arrangements and arrangements.
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Despite the fact that categories such aselectronic and instrumental music are often contrasted, sometimes certain types of electronic music are considered instrumental if the composition does not use a human voice. This is some contradiction, but it has a place to be, it is useful to know about it.
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In instrumental music the mostvarious tools. Most often these are orchestras or various musical formations, for example, quartets, quintets and others. But any music, played even on one instrument without vocals, is also considered instrumental.
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Instrumental music people love with the mostantiquities. According to archaeological data, the age of the most ancient musical instruments is about 40 thousand years old, and this is a flute. They are found in the southwestern part of Germany in the cave of Hole-Fels. The ancient Greeks were already famous for instrumental music lovers. Plato noticed in his writings that city dwellers prefer the instrumental music of string kifar and lyre, but the villagers prefer wind instruments: flutes.
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The development of European instrumental music wasit is somewhat difficult for the fact that for many hundreds of years the church has owned almost a monopoly on the performance of musical works. Almost all the music was religious, which means that she praised the Lord, so she used vocal parts. Even a statement by one religious figure on this subject is known: "Tools do not have a soul or life. They can not praise God. " Nevertheless, even then instrumental music did not cease to exist.
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But the gloomy Middle Ages ended, it wasthe time of the Renaissance, when beautiful arts, including instrumental music, again find themselves under the closest attention of people. From this time on, music develops very actively, moreover, instrumental forms develop together with vocal-instrumental, they go hand in hand, and one is not conceivable without the other.
