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Origin and History of Music & Evolution of Musical Instruments 📯🎺🎷🎻🎹🎸🥁🎼🎼

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🕉️ 🎶🎼 Sound (nada) is believed to be the heart of the process of creation. In Hinduism, the sacred syllable Om embodies the essence of the universe  - it is the "hum" of the atoms and the music of the spheres - and sound in general represents the primal energy that holds the material world together. Sangita, the Bharatiya tradition of music, is an old as Bharatiya contacts with the Western world, and it has graduated through various strata of evolution: primitive, prehistoric, Vedic, classical, mediaeval, and modern. It has traveled from temples and courts to modern festivals and concert halls, imbibing the spirit of Bharatiya culture, and retaining a clearly recognizable continuity of tradition. Whilst the words of songs have varied and altered from time to time, many of the musical themes are essentially ancient.  The music of Bharat ( Hindustan / India ) is one of the oldest unbroken musical traditions in the world.  It is said that the origins of this system go back to