First Free Week Post

Hello everyone,
I thought that since this was a free topic week, I would provide some things I have learned in one of my other classes. In this class we are learning about very early forms of music and musical notation. It was very interesting to learn that the earliest form of music notation was called neumes. These were different symbols and markings above the text that people sang from to indicate how the music was to be sang. They of course had no early way of writing choral music down. Before this early form of notation they relayed all of their music on oral transmission. They had to memorize all of which they sang or chanted. One main place that music started was in the church. The choirs chanted everything as a way to get parishoners more into the mass. These choirs were all men and would have to memorize hundreds of chants. Eventually these chants were spread all over Europe to other churches, but the were always changed in transmission. Notation made it easier for these chants to be reproduced elsewhere. Also, in the earliest Empires, music was used for entertainment. Outside of the church, pagens used music and dancing for many things and rituals. After notation with neumes, heighted neumes, then solomen chant notation (which was the earliest form of musical lines), people were able to write down music to remember and also share it with other nations. As this notation progressed, music became more and more developed. I thought this might be a good topic, but I am not sure because I have never done something like this before. Let me know what you all think.