Atlanta Music TV

For generations in the United States our culture has been firmly founded on music. Some of this resource comes from our various heritages, but there is always an under current of changes that occur from one generation to the next. A large part of our musical heritage has arrived from the classical music originating in Europe over the past three to four centuries. Most of these classical music composers were intelectually superior. They were also blessed with a gift from our creator that most of us don’t have that being perfect pitch and the ability to create melodies that they heard in their minds Some of the early music originating in the United States came from Irish and Scotch immigrants many of whom settled in the Applacian Mountains. These early songs were “memory” sings that they remembered from the country of the guitar songs ir origin.Many of them settled in isolated homesteads. with little or no other human contact. Because of this isolation, their inherited music began to change. Early on most of the songs were families stories remembered from one genertion to the next. Each line of the song would end with a raising of the musical note much like a question mark. Perhaps this was asking the listener to approve of the story.With time there was less emphasis on the family story line and thestory telling songs became more univeral in content.Today, we enjoy these story telling songs in our country western music. In a very brief time, the delivery of music has changed from records to tapes to cassettes to compact discs to digital music. In 2005 the digital market in music was 2.7 billion dollars and in 2010 it is estimated to be at 15 billion.