History of music and rhythm

I watched all of the rhythm videos. I learned that no matter what time period and where the music come from there is rhythm involved. There are different levels of complexity of rhythm. All rhythm has a pulse or beat even if we can’t hear it. For example, Siegfried Idyll “Wagner” is a classical song that one can’t hear the pulse. The pulse in “Wagner” piece is implied like in most classical music. There are two types of implicit and explicit pulses. Explicit is the hiding of the pulse while implicit is the completely opposite. Explicit pulse makes music more relaxing than implicit. Pulse can be broken up in different ways. There are also accents to the pulse. Some pulse can be accented more heavily than others. The most important pulses get the heaviest accent. Sometimes we can even hear arrhythmic patterns when they don’t exist. On the other hand, sometimes artist will use rhythmic tricks. We find enjoyment in rhythmic tricks. Jazz music has a lot of rhythmic tricks in it. We first heard pulse inside our mother womb. They way that we dance to music overtime has changed. Ragtime was a popular type of music in the late nineteenth century. Ragtime originated from marching music. Marching music has a specific of beat that can be followed to keep the crowd moving as one. Ragtime creates a type of jerking dance. We now dance on just our feet which is related to the way we walk instead all of fours back in evolutionary times. The one two rhythm we get from walking inspired subdivision of the pulse. Jazz came from ragtime. A popular type of jazz is swing. The speed of the rhythm is called the tempo. The word tempo originates from Italian. There are different words to describe the tempo including; andante, largo, allegro, or presto. I learn a lot of exciting things from these videos.