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READING 4000 BCE 3500 BCE 2 Choose the best answer.
Harps and Lyres and
flute (Egypt) double
1 Listen and read. TR: 3.7 clarinet 1. A drum is a .
(Egypt)
It’s All Music 3000 BCE a. string instrument b. percussion instrument c. wind instrument
Bamboo
pipe (China) 2000 BCE 2. If you press a key on a wind instrument, the sound changes because .
Trumpets
People made music before they could write about it. (Denmark)
One of the oldest instruments ever found is more than 1500 BCE Percussion a. your finger is heavy
42,000 years old. It’s a flute. Instruments like flutes are Guitars and (Egypt) b. it holds the instrument tightly
called wind instruments. The music comes from moving tambourines
(Anatolia)
air, usually when a person blows into the instrument. 500 BCE c. the path of the air changes
Aulos
Each wind instrument has a shape that makes its sound kithara
lyre
different. Some have holes for fingers to cover. Others (Greece) 3. An empty space inside percussion instruments makes the sound .
have buttons to press. Holes and buttons let you change 50 CE a. softer b. faster c. louder
Oboe
the way the air travels to change the notes. (Rome)

Another way to make music is with strings. When you pluck a string, it makes a 4. Some string instruments are played with a .
note. String instruments have thick or thin strings and long or short strings to make a. bow b. hammer c. key
different notes. The shape of the stringed instrument also helps to make the sound. If
the shape is bigger, the music sounds lower. Musicians often use a bow to play string 3 Match the instruments and their types. Work with a partner. Check
instruments. The bow is a piece of wood with hairs or a string stretched between its
ends. Musicians slide it over the strings to make sounds. the correct column.
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You can also make music by hitting or shaking something. Percussion instruments
can be made from many things. That’s because most things make a sound when Wind String Percussion
you hit them. The air inside the instrument makes the sound louder. A drum is a Drums

percussion instrument, but instruments with strings can be percussion instruments,
too. When you hit strings, you can make music. A piano is a percussion Flute
instrument. When you press the piano keys, hammers Guitar Mozart
inside the piano hit the strings to make music. composed his
Piano first song when
he was five
Saxophone years old.

Violin

4 Work in groups of three. Invent a unique band that mixes
different musical instruments. What six instruments would

you choose?

Varanasi,
Uttar Pradesh State, India
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