What would you say is like the base of all or most genres of music?

Question

I have my opinion but i wanna know what others think.

Answer 1

well if you look way way way back you would see that every song and every beat started somewhere in Classical music.. for ever genre except for it.. there is no other base of music

Answer 2

Tribal beats. Its all about rhythm. Tribal chanting and drum beats. Everything else is elaboration.

Then later music was organized with Gregorian chants and such for church music evolving into harmonies and then into classical music. That is where we get harmony and theory from. However, we can't explain groove and soul with classical (I love classical, but it isn't as rhythm based as it is harmonically).

On the other end is cultural music. For example, blues was played in the late 1800s by slaves with no "knowledge" of music. From this we got rock and jazz and later rap and all styles derived. So, for American music, I'd have to say blues is a major base.

It is ignorant to say all music comes from classical. Many places in the world have never been exposed to classical. Think of small tribes all over Africa or Asia or the Middle East. They developed their music separate from Europe. In other words, if you look way back, their are thousands of years of history of music before classical music popped up in Europe in the Middle Ages and didn't even really get going until the 18th century.

Answer 3

All/most genres of music came from the fusion of classical music and the folk songs of the non-industrialized tribes. The story of music begins with the classical factor. As the first documented form of music (thanks to the prolific amounts of sheet music dating from such periods) were classical, these were the only aural relics salvagable and reproducable for a mass audience to consume without having to know a specific verbal language. The slave imports occurring in the mid-1800's were the final step in classical innovation: the folk music pioneered by the tribes became heard on a wider scale as they were set to work in the cornfields and cottonfields of the south.
As musical technology was furthered, with new instruments being created and new textures and sonic ideologies being born with them, music grew and branched out. New minds applied their theories of how music should sound to the benchmarks laid by the classical composers and in the end, new genres were resultant. Such practice continues even today, with new musical classifications being created by the fusion of pre-existing ideals. However, the innovation of our time is much more limited compared to the innovation of years prior due to the possibilities of genre-fusions being hindered due to record labels catering to the lowest common denominator of the narrow musical market, which discourages change and originality. As well, most of what can be done with music has arguably already been carried out.

Answer 4

Soul music!

Answer 5

rock

Answer 6

blues and gospel..history says so..