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Chapter One

Creating Music

W hen you think of music, you probably think of it as an art form that’s based on sound. Musicians, however, say that music is as much about silence as it is sound. Music creates patterns of sound and silence that please us in some way when we hear them. They make us feel something. But that doesn’t mean that every human being in the world will re- spond in the same way to the same patterns. There are many kinds of music. Although music has been a part of human life for thousands of years, it has changed down through the eras of history. It was different in different places around the world, with each culture developing its own kind of music.

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