I'm doing an informative paper on music. I need to figure out when music started(year/century) and i need to know what type of music and what instruments were used durring that time. I'm look on the internet but i keep getting mutiple answers and i'm so confused. Can you help?

Answer 1

Here are a number of sites on the history of music.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=history+of+music&btnG=Search

Answer 2

We don't know much about the earliest music as it happened in prehistoric times -- before writing. We assume that the earliest people had music of some sort. The flute was perhaps the oldest instrument, after the human voice. Check these sites for more information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_music

http://www.greenwych.ca/fl-compl.htm

Answer 3

Thank you.