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INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC.

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A Tutorial From The DESK Of The TYAGOG's Music Class. Like and follow us on Facebook.  Join our free WhatsApp Music Class. Many people have defined music and most of them drafted their definitions based on their personal dealings with Music. Music is older than man himself, and so, can only be defined the way we see it individually. The study of music began in the ancients when men desired to give their voices shapes and craft other aids to vocals (instruments). Ancient Music In Greek Ancient Egyptian Music Makers.  The Greek God Apollo was believed to play the lyre which could account for its popularity. Another instrument named the Aulos   was widely used in ancient Greece. This was a double reed instrument similar to a double oboe and would have had quite a powerful and penetrating timbre. We are also aware that the ancient Greeks had their own theories that surrounded music, many developed by Pythagoras.  ...

INTRODUCTION TO THE KEYBOARD.

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A Tutorial From The Desk Of The TYAGOG's Music Class.  I believe that, we all must have come across the word 'Keyboard'. No one can deny it. If there's anyone who would, then, the person shouldn't be existing in our world. But, what is a keyboard then? To the layman, a keyboard generally means the collection of keys on a board. What do we mean by this? We don't just have the musical keyboard, we also have the computer and the smartphone keyboards. The similarity between all the keyboards is that, they all have boards and keys on them. However, our focus here is the musical keyboard. The computer keyboard serves as an input device in the sense that, it sends in commands to the system and these commands would display on the monitor, which is output device. Meanwhile, the musical keyboard has a different mechanism. It is a full system on itself that serves as both input and output. It creates its own instructions and provides a feedback for us. Th...