Objective sight words (device, sign

Objective sight words (device, signal, religious ceremony, composed,
performed, melody, historians, classify, range of music); concepts (classification
and types of musical instruments, culture, civilization, ritual, entertainment, nondurable,
organology)
Musical Instruments to Play

A musical instrument is a device created to make
musical sounds. Anything that makes a sound can be used
as a musical instrument.
The history of musical instruments goes back to the
beginning of culture. People first used instruments as ritual:
a hunter might use a trumpet to signal a successful hunt; a
drum might be used in a religious ceremony.
Vocabulary

device melody
signal historians
religious
ceremony classify
composed range of
music
performed


Cultures later composed and performed a set of sounds
called a melody for entertainment. Musical instruments were
needed. Some historians report that the earliest musical
instrument was a simple flute. Many of the earliest musical
instruments were made from animal skins, bone, wood, and
other non-durable materials.
Musical instruments were developed separately in the
different countries and regions of the world, but when
civilizations shared information amongst themselves, the
development of instruments spread. For example, cultures
of North America, South America, and Central America used
similar instruments and shared these ideas of making
instruments that were alike in some way.
Many different ways have been used to classify
instruments over the years. One way to classify instruments
is to put them in groups by the range of music the
instruments can play. Another classification is to put them
together by what they are made out of. However, the most
common method of grouping instruments is by how they
produce sounds. The academic study of musical
instruments is called organology.
Woodwinds and brass (sometimes called the “wind”
instruments), string, percussion, electric, and keyboard are
types of instruments grouped according to how they are
made and the range of music and sounds they play.
Woodwind and brass instruments include the trumpet,
clarinet, flute, oboe, trombone, tuba, and harmonica.
Stringed instruments include the banjo, guitar, harp, violin,
and viola. Percussion instruments include the cymbal,
chime, timpani, drum, and tambourine. Electronic
instruments are the keyboard and the synthesizer.
Keyboard instruments include the accordion, organ, and
piano.
Maybe you will play an instrument someday. Will it be
a woodwind or brass, stringed, percussion, electronic or a
keyboard instrument?