Craig+Thorogood+RP+Post+2


 * **What role has music played in past societies and has this role changed over the years?**
 * **"The Method Behind the Music" "History of Music"**
 * **Benjamin Hollis**
 * **http://method-behind-the-music.com/history/history**
 * **Web - 24 May 2014**
 * **In his webpage "History of Music", Benjamin Hollis utilizes a first person, casual tone to inform the readers about the history of music and the evolution of instruments in a light-hearted, friendly way**
 * **First, Hollis delves into Prehistoric music and talks about the drum and early versions of instruments like the trumpet and the guitar. Then, he talks about music in Ancient Rome and Greece, where concepts of modern music were developed. Lastly, he explains music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and how music slowly became what it is today.**
 * **While the early stages of music were essential to its development, it is the music after the Renaissance that best represents the history of music.**
 * **I am not sure if I am totally persuaded...I'll have to do some more research and see.**
 * ****Quotes:****
 * ****"****With the onset of the Renaissance, the rules of music were about to change drastically. This was the beginning of a new enlightened age that would showcase some of the greatest musical minds ever produced."
 * **"**The history of music at this point is best told by the [|styles] that emerged and the [|composers] who lived after the Renaissance."
 * "The earliest forms of music were probably drum-based, percussion instruments being the most readily available at the time (i.e. rocks, sticks). These simplest of simple instruments are thought to have been used in religious ceremonies as representations of animals"