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[[File:12 Hole Ocarina.jpg|right|thumb|150px|The [[wikipedia:Ocarina|Ocarina]] originated from Morstaybishlia.]]
Throughout its history, Great Morstaybishlia has been a major producer and source of musical creation, drawing its artistic basis from the wealth of music from many cultures across the four constituent countries.
Researchers have discovered archaeological evidence of musical instruments in many parts of Morstaybishlia. Some artifacts have been dated to 55,000 years old, while critics often dispute the findings. Consensus solidifying about artifacts dated back to around 27,000 years old and later. Artifacts made from durable materials, or constructed using durable methods, have been found to survive. ▼
[[File:Lyre as depicted in ancient Valeria.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Detailed illustration found in modern day South Staynes, showing a lyre being played by an Usprian elf in ancient Valeria.]]
▲Researchers have discovered archaeological evidence of musical instruments in many parts of Morstaybishlia. Some artifacts have been dated to 55,000 years old, such as a Valerian flute made from an animal bone which was dated between 35,000 and 40,000 years old, while critics often dispute the findings. Consensus solidifying about artifacts dated back to around 27,000 years old and later. Artifacts made from durable materials, or constructed using durable methods, have been found to survive.
Images of musical instruments begin to appear in Valerian artifacts in 3500 BC or earlier. Beginning around 3000 BC, Valerian (elven) culture began delineating two distinct classes of musical instruments due to division of labour and the evolving class system. Popular instruments, simple and playable by anyone, evolved differently from professional instruments whose development focused on effectiveness and skill. Only few examples from these time periods have been recovered. Even the process of assigning names to these instruments is challenging since there is no clear distinction among various instruments and the words used to describe them. Although Valerian artists mainly depicted ceremonial instruments, historians have distinguished that wind-based and string-based instruments were prominent in earlier Valerian society, creating [[Wikipedia:African harp|bow harps]], [[Wikipedia:Harps|harps]] and [[Wikipedia:Lyres|lyres]], as well as [[Wikipedia:Paleolithic flutes|bone flutes]].
During the period of time loosely referred to as the Middle Ages, Staynes and Caltharus developed their own traditions of integrating musical influence from other regions. The first record of this type of influence is in 401 CE, when Staynes (then the second Maltervenian Empire) established an orchestra in its royal court after a conquest in the Kingdom of Corstania. Influences from other Auroran cultures, as well as Yasterian, Arcturian, and other regions followed. In fact, early northern Auroran musical tradition attributes many musical instruments from this period to those regions. [[Wikipedia:Piano|Pianos]] became widely popular after its invention in Ethalria, along with more advanced trumpets, clarinets, flutes, drums, lutes, oboes and cymbals.
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[[File:The_Duet_c1635_by_Saftleven.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''The Duo'', by Staynish painter Arnos Buzolia, c. 1639; showing a [[Wikipedia:Violin|violinist]] and a [[Wikipedia:Cittern|cittern]] player.]]
Morstaybishlia had a large impact in musical instrument development from the 15th century onwards. Instruments took on other purposes than accompanying singing or dance, and performers used them as solo instruments, especially in the upper echelons of society. [[Wikipedia:Keyboard instrument|Keyboards]] and [[Wikipedia:Lute|lutes]] developed as polyphonic instruments, and composers arranged increasingly complicated pieces using advances in [[Wikipedia:Tablature|tablature]] techniques. Composers also began designing pieces of music for specific instruments. In the latter half of the sixteenth century, [[Wikipedia:Orchestration|orchestration]] came into common practice as a method of writing music for a variety of instruments.
▲[[File:ISFJ - 1.JPG|right|thumb|180px|An artist playing the [[Wikipedia:Slide trumpet|slide trumpet]], invented in the 18th century in Staynes.]]
Beginning in the seventeenth century, composers began writing works to a higher emotional degree. Bowed instruments such as the [[Wikipedia:Violin|violin]], [[Wikipedia:Viola|viola]], [[Wikipedia:Baryton|baryton]], and various lutes dominated popular music. Beginning in around 1755, however, the lute disappeared from musical compositions in favor of the rising popularity of the [[Wikipedia:Guitar|guitar]]. As the prevalence of [[Wikipedia:String orchestra|string orchestras]] rose, wind instruments such as the flute, [[Wikipedia:Oboe|oboe]], and [[Wikipedia:Bassoon|bassoon]] were readmitted to counteract the monotony of hearing only strings. This period saw the [[Wikipedia:Slide trumpet|slide trumpet]] invented in Staynes.
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During the Classical and Romantic periods of music, lasting from roughly 1750 to 1900, many musical instruments capable of producing new timbres and higher volume were developed and introduced into popular music. The design changes that broadened the quality of timbres allowed instruments to produce a wider variety of expression. Large orchestras rose in popularity and, in parallel, the composers determined to produce entire orchestral scores that made use of the expressive abilities of modern instruments. New instruments such as the [[Wikipedia:Clarinet|clarinet]], [[Wikipedia:Saxophone|saxophone]], and [[Wikipedia:Tuba|tuba]] became fixtures in orchestras.
[[File:Morst folk band.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Caltharusian folk band.]]▼
▲[[File:E-mu Modular System @ Cantos (trapezoid transformed).jpg|right|thumb|250px|This modular synthesizer, designed in Sani Bursil, is one of world first modern ''polyphonic synthesizers''.]]
The proliferation of [[Wikipedia:Electricity|electricity]] in the 20th century lead to the creation of an entirely new category of musical instruments: electronic instruments, or [[Wikipedia:Electrophones|electrophones]]. The latter half of the 20th century saw the evolution of [[Wikipedia:Synthesizer|synthesizers]] and adoption of [[Wikipedia:Sampler (musical instrument)|samplers]].
Each of the four countries of Great Morstaybishlia has its own diverse and distinctive [[Wikipedia:Folk music|folk music]] forms. Folk music has existed here since antiquity, and flourished until the era of industrialisation when it began to be replaced by new forms of popular music, including [[Wikipedia:Music hall|music hall]] and [[Wikipedia:Brass band|brass bands]]. Realisation of this led to academics and amateur scholars taking note of the musical traditions being lost, and over three waves, one in the late-19th century, one in the mid-20th century and one at the start of the 21st century; initiated various efforts to preserve the music of the people. The most notable effort involved was the collection of the texts of over three hundred [[Wikipedia:Ballads|ballads]] in the Staynish and Calth traditions, by Alemin Thompson-Fisher (called the Thompson-Fisher Ballads), some of which predate the 15th century. Valerian folklore, which had been a lifeline to their pre-Morstaybishlian kingdom before the 13th century, was widely lost in the industrial revolution, though scholars and amateur scholars preserved many of the vanishing ballads and folk dance songs. Valerian folklore has a revivalist movement which began in the mid 20th century. Overall, folk music as an important sub-culture within Morstaybishlian society.
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Forms of popular music, including folk music, [[Wikipedia:Jazz|jazz]], [[Wikipedia:Rapping|rapping]]/[[Wikipedia:Hip hop music|hip hop]], [[Wikipedia:Pop music|pop]] and [[Wikipedia:Rock music|rock music]], have particularly flourished in Great Morstaybishlia since the twentieth century. Morstaybishlia has had a large influence on popular music due to its size, and due to its linguistic and cultural links with many countries, particularly [[Peregrinia]] and [[Emberwood Coast]] and many of its former colonies, and its capacity for invention, innovation and fusion, which has led to the development of, or participation in, many of the major trends in popular music. In the early-20th century, influences from Peregrinia and [[Free Pacific States]] became most dominant in popular music, with young performers producing their own versions of South East Yasterian music, including [[Wikipedia:Rock and roll|rock n' roll]] from the late 1950s and developing a parallel music scene. This is particularly true since the early 1960s when the Morstaybishlian Invasion, led by The Swallows, helped to secure Morst performers a major place in development of pop and rock music. Since then, rock music and popular music contributed to a Morst-SEY collaboration, with genres being exchanged and exported to one another, where they tended to be adapted and turned into new movements, only to be exported back again. Genres originating in or radically developed by Morstaybishlian musicians include [[Wikipedia:Blues rock|blues rock]], [[Wikipedia:Heavy metal music|heavy metal]], [[Wikipedia:Progressive rock|progressive rock]], [[Wikipedia:Ska|ska]], [[Wikipedia:Hard rock|hard rock]], [[Wikipedia:Punk rock|punk rock]], [[Wikipedia:Bhangra (music)|Bhangra]], Morst [[Wikipedia:Folk rock|folk rock]], [[Wikipedia:Folk punk|folk punk]], [[Wikipedia:Acid jazz|acid jazz]], [[Wikipedia:Trip hop|trip hop]], [[Wikipedia:Shoegaze|shoegaze]], [[Wikipedia:Drum and bass|drum and bass]], [[Wikipedia:Gothic rock|goth rock]], [[Wikipedia:Grime (music genre)|grime]], [[Wikipedia:Afroswing|gondoswing]], [[Wikipedia:List of industrial music genres|industrial]] and [[Wikipedia:Dubstep|dubstep]].
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