Publications and recordings have successfully internationalized music in its most significant, as well as its most trivial, manifestations. Beyond all this, the teaching of music in major and secondary colleges has now attained nearly worldwide acceptance. Zoomusicology is the study of the music of non-human animals, or the musical aspects of sounds produced by non-human animals. In many cultures, there may be much less distinction between performing and listening to music, since just about everyone is concerned in some type of musical activity, typically in a communal setting. In industrialized international locations, listening to music through a recorded form, corresponding to sound recording on document or radio became more common than experiencing live performance, roughly in the course of the twentieth century.

The song “Hail, Columbia” was a serious work that remained an unofficial nationwide anthem till the adoption of “The Star-Spangled Banner”. Although comparatively unknown outside of Shaker Communities, … Read More