Mapping music can mean many things so I started off typing it into google. I found sites that you could type in an artist’s name and then it would map out other artist in the same genre and whichever name was clo
sest to your musician would most likely be a musician you would enjoy. I thought this was pretty good and I have inserted a map to the left of exactly that. I used Jason Aldean which is a favorite of mine.
There is also the technique of “mapping music through the musical performance.” This means the way that the music is preformed in a concert, things like lighting or set list. There should be a continuous emotional trip during a performance.
During this mini quest to figure out how to map music I started looking at the origins of music. I found many theories, one of which I found interesting to me. An Indian tale of how the Earth first got music: An American Indian Legend - Nation Unknown....
"A great medicine man, who studies the four quarters of the world and the skies, walked the Earth and, noticing how silent it was, cried out with great sadness and pity for the people of the world. He called out for the winds from the four quarters of the Earth, "Come oh Wind!" "Come oh Wind!" "Come oh Wind!" "Come oh Wind!"".... To find out the rest of the story check out this link.http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/HowMusicCameToTheEarth-Unknown.html
Other website say that the origins of music started with the Greeks (who actual thought that someo of their instruments were made from the Gods), ancient Egypt or during the biblical period with the Judeo-Christians, some even say Australian Aborigines started music. I am not sure what I believe but I am sure of one thing every culture/nation had its own version of music dating back thousands of years. However the instruments used have changed drastically so I decided to search for a "map of instruments" and low and behold I found one that maps out the major groups used to distinguish instruments predominately used today...(shown below) As I look at it I can picture things in nature that could have been used to make some of the different instruments and it is really fascinating. During this exploration I found out that human bone and hair were used in the instrument making process which made me thankful I was not around thousands of years ago.
http://sites.google.com/site/kyokomiuramusic/_/rsrc/1235342918067/assignments/Musical%20Instruments.jpg
