The History of MusicThe Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, states that music is “The science or art of arranging tones or sounds in succession, in combination and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity. It can be created from vocal, instrumental or mechanical sounds with rhythm, melody or harmony. "With all the different types of music, it would be difficult to navigate and it would take a long time to discuss all aspects of the music. . We can agree and/or disagree about how universal the music is and how it relates to everything we do on a daily basis. What one person likes as music, another person may have a completely different opinion. After studying the history of music, it turns out that there are different theories about music and it is difficult to determine exactly in what time it originated. Many say that music was created before the existence of man. Historians say that there are six time periods of music and each different time period has a certain type of music that contributed to the music we know today.The first time period for music is the period of the Middle Ages or known as the medieval period Symbols written on paper are used to represent music by identifying a certain symbol with a certain tone called notions. At the same time they discovered how to combine more than two independent melodies - polyphony. http://musiced.about.com/od/timelines/a/medieval.htmThe second time period for music is the Renaissance period. During this time music was reborn and the way music was written and understood underwent many changes. In this time period, composers were expert... middle of paper... obvious areas such as rain on a tin roof, the croaking of frogs, trees whistling in the wind, birds chirping in the morning early, hands clapping together, someone humming or whistling and tapping on something in a deep tone. Over the years people have made a lot of progress combining sounds to create music as we know it today. If we look at music from the beginning, music has a lot to say in creating the sounds and tones that make us happy, changes our mood and sets a tone for how we act. It all starts with creating the words or series of sounds, we write the lyrics and then we talk and sing again and again until they make sense and sound good, once we are happy with the words we add the instruments and again and again we play and play the song until the instruments actually sing the song and are in harmony with the words.