How+has+music+changed+over+time

=Music changes=

Wherever there's people, there's music. Music has been around for about 40,000 years, the first known Australian music started off with the Aborigines from the Woiwurrung tribe, the Wurundjeri people. Before the settlement of the Europeans, Melbourne was home to the Aboriginals, the Aborigines made their music using instruments like the didgeridoo and clap sticks, these often took months to make because the didgeridoo needed to be hollowed out, painted and waxed. The didgeridoo needed a solid sound only produced by the driest Australian hardwoods like the Eucalyptus trees.

After a while the Aboriginal style of music vanished and was replaced by the more classy European style. Many styles of music were explored from jazz to instrumentals inspired by far western music. Years after this, the more popular genre opera took over.

Dame Nellie Melba was the birth of opera into what was a modern Melbourne then. Nellie was an outstanding musician born in Melbourne in May 1861. She was attending Presbyterian Ladies' College when the teachers noticed her talent. Even now she is a commonly known name and is still recognized for her contribution to the growth of Melbourne's opera. Dame Nellie Melba moved to Lilydale at a young age and spent the rest of her life there, her house is now used as a small country style museum open to the public. Dame Nellie Melba is buried in the Lilydale cemetery and remains one of the best opera singers Melbourne has ever seen.

The next era in Melbourne’s musical history was called the “Little Band scene”. The little band scene was the time the small local artists shone, there was large crowds to see bands that were small at the time. These events were held at pubs like the Esplanade in St. Kilda and various other venues around the city. This period was made up of the 1970’s and ‘80’s, when Melbourne’s musicians were highly inspired by the punk/rock music that originated from overseas. This era in music was loud and it was what people wanted. In the late ‘70’s sound restrictions came into place, but they weren’t properly inforced until the late ‘80’s. Neighborhoods around venues used for musicians in the CBD were often complaining and even protesting about the noise levels raised, eventually the sound restrictions were firmly set into place.

At the turn of the century a large demand grew for music with a faster tempo. Artists such as Kylie Minogue and others were brought in from the streets of Melbourne to the international stage. From there on Melbourne’s music has gone up and down, not only has the music scene grown incredibly lately but is still growing.