First and Best
AUDIBILITIES
King Street Recording Company
Professional Audio Services for Any Purpose You Can Think Of – Video and Photo Too!
Quality Professional Services Since 1967
15 East King Street, Post Office Box 402 Malvern, PA 19355-0402
Volume 82, Spring, 2022 610-647-4341 www.kingstreetrecording.com kingstreetrecord@aol.com
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First and Best
The first and best musical instrument is the human voice. No other instrument can approach the flexibility, nuance and range of emotional expression of a voice raised in song. Singing, in fact, may predate language.
Musical Forms
Before the development of singing, there were no melodies – there were no musical instruments to create them with! So, singing must have begun with simple chants. Over the millennia, the chants naturally developed into primitive songs with words and simple, repeatable melodies. As language grew in sophistication and religious practices began to develop, special songs were created for religious ceremonies. In time, basic folksongs gradually emerged. These served both as a form of entertainment and a means of disseminating the events of the times. Now, after thousands of years, musical forms for voice range from Gregorian chants of the 9th and 10th centuries to grand opera – and everything in between.