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2. Curator’s Office Hannah Winstel
I am 13 years old. I live in Independence and Ft. Thomas. I play the clarinet in the band.
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3. Mesopotamia
Room 1
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4. Indus Valley
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5. Egypt
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6. China
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7. Greece
Room 5
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8. Rome
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9. Artifact 1
This instrument is called a lyre. This lyre is from Mesopotamia. Lyres was fashioned into a shape of a bull. The bulls body was the music box. Some had horns and some didn’t.
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10. Artifact 2
These are some examples of flutes that Mesopotamians played. They were made out of bones. They would of played vertically instead of horizontal.
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11. Artifact 3
Mesopotamians would have played drum. Made from animal hide stretched over wood. Tied with string or yarn around the wood. They would have put a hole in the sides like in this photo so it would not fall off.
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12. Artifact 4
When Mesopotamian musicians would play but before they would do so they would wash their hands. This requirement would be for stringed instruments.
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13. Artifact 5
This drum from the Indus Valley was more well designed than the Mesopotamian drum. With a mallet to hit it with. Holes every side. This is to make it on there securely.
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14. Artifact 6
The 2 main instruments that came from India flute and violin. These flutes where made a little better than Mesopotamian flutes is that these you play horizontally. Instead of vertically.
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15. Artifact 7
This is Sanskrit. It was copied writing on paper it developed in this civilization, Indus Valley. Sanskrit vocalizing syllables is called Sthobhakaras. They sang Sthobhakaras for sacrifices for their gods. These Sanskrit text where often included with instruments in folk music.
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16. Artifact 8
North India they used music for times of the day or night and seasons. India developed in 500 BC -200BC tempo and rhythm. They also developed poems priest used in 1500BC-500BC.
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17. Artifact 9
This is a picture of clappers made in Egypt. Everyone used them. If there was a parade or festival citizens would of used them. They are made out of wood and looked like arms.
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18. Artifact 10
In this picture is a group of Egyptian women playing the flutes. As you can see they are playing the flutes horizontally. Not vertically. The flutes have many holes in them instead of just 6 or 7 like the other civilizations. There are also have other instruments in this photo.
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19. Artifact 11
Both female and male were in Egyptian music. Professional musicians existed on a number social levels. Women were frequently the high status. Some music was accompanied by dancers. They plucked stringed instruments instead of using a bow.
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20. Artifact 12
Ranged from very simple such as percussion, to complex harps. Barrel shape drums in the Middle Kingdom. They made improvements on instruments in the New Kingdom. Middle kingdom invented drums. This material came from tree trunks. Has more details on the drum then the other civilizations.
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21. Artifact 13
In this picture shows a big drum from China. This drum was used for military, dancing, drama, entertainment, and festivals. Instruments were put inside tombs that belong to musicians. Chinese exchanged on silk road instruments to one another.
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22. Artifact 14
Erhu ‘Chinese Violin’ – two stringed bowed musical instrument. Over a thousand years old. Horse head fiddle, erhu (just a few). Most instrument made from hide, clay, metal, stone (ground), wood, silk, and bamboo. Chinese invented opera, performed in theaters.
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23. Artifact 15
Chinese zither called guzheng. More than 18/23 strings with moveable bridges. Quqin is part of the zither family, 7 stringed instrument. The Chinese invented the tipa, the flute, and the zither.
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24. Artifact 16
This instrument is called the sheng. The sheng is one of the oldest vertical pipes. This instrument is complicated to play, but, it is a considered a huge accomplishment to learn how to play the sheng. Singing and dancing come into play in the Tang dynasty. Chimes and Bells made for the royal family to enjoy. This was created in the Xia, Shang, Zhou.
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25. Artifact 17
Music was important for religious festivals, marriage, and funeral rights, and banquet gatherings. Music accompanied songs and poems. Music was an important feature of religious festivals. Shepherds piped to their flocks, oarsman and infantry kept time to music, and women made music at home.
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26. Artifact 18
This a Greek school where children come to learn. Music was so important that it was taught in schools. Every educated man was expected to learn and play the lyre. Greek philosophers saw a relationship between music and mathematics. Special hymns were given at weddings, death and births.
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27. Artifact 19
This is Greek lyre. Greeks used special features from animals like in this photo. This lyre showed that they value animals. Hymns were played for gods at all public festivals.
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28. Artifact 20
People also played flutes or pipes. These were made of bone of wood. Instrumental music of the singing of hymns regularly accompanied everyday activities or formal acts of worship. The aulos, is a double reed instrument that Greeks used.
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29. Artifact 21
Greek instruments accompanied marriages. These marriages had special hymns. At funerals they would play music for the burial.
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30. Artifact 22
This neat and cool instrument is called the water organ. The Romans used water to pump force into a closed chamber. When doing this, you would be compressing air inside. This instrument had hand operating valves. These valves would signify when you turned on a note, and this is how the instrument played.
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31. Artifact 23
This lyre was a Greek origin instrument. The lyre was at gladiator shows. It accompanied religious ceremonies. Reed pipes and two bronze horns were on the lyre.
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32. Artifact 24
This Roman is playing a flute. You can play one or two (like in this photo). Professional musicians and dancers were usually slaves or freed men. The instruments Romans usually played were pipes, lyre, flutes, tambourines, and cymbals.

33. Artifact 25
Instruments were usually played at theaters at games. Musicians played in a theater or private party. Music was usually performed as part of theater plays. Concerts were given as well. Often in small theaters. These little theaters were called an odeon.

34. Back Wall Artifact
This map is a map of Mesopotamia. Mesopotamians were the first civilization. If Mesopotamians didn’t invent the first instruments then there would be none today.
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