Show modern orchestra goes back to bow and arrow music musk as an art at least as we un der derst stand tind it Is a purely occidental da do ent scarcely years old sas a writer pitr in the kansas city star within that bh rt span of time the human imagination has found many widely differing dIf frIng modes ot of expression through music the conception of son song melody and instrumental melody ha has ch chariei aried radically the various must cal fal instruments have hane undergone vast in proven ent and some have definitely been blen relegated to the museum but throughout this entire period the ot 01 chestra has been undergoing a fasci bating evolution ahe colern orchestra may be said to go back to the bow and arrow as its starting startina point for the orchestra as we haw banow it was built around the string quartet and the string quartet was composed of the violin family musicologists assume that the origin of the violin may be traced to the time when primitive prim ithe man in letting fly tl e bow from the arrow heard the bound made by the bow string slowly ani an I 1 painfully this primitive idea was developed until it found its perfect pei feet flor essence in the cremona and guernard Guer narl us violins A moments examination of it tte e violin will com convince ince the ot ol observer sens server r that the instrell In ent Is in principle the same as the bow which the hunter used similarly in the case of the flute the assumption ai Is that a primitive shepherd shep heid in tending hia his sheep heard the he wind blowing across the end of the reed thus we see that in the case of tl e orchestra it Is the unpredictable dic dle table leaps of the human tion that I 1 ave produced its inspru ments and that its origins go back to the roots of human nature |