With as early as the establishment of the first human civilization, music has been a part of our lives in one way or another. Some people use it as an expression of their feelings, some as a way of communicating, and some just for entertainment. Many get interested in learning how to play an instrument or the details that surround music for a combination of one of the above or an entirely different reason. J.J. Tulips, for this purpose, publishes her first book, Music for Beginners: A Guide to Music.
J.J. Tulips is an award-winning pianist with years’ worth of experience backing up her advice. In her book, she talks about how the music that we know today was a lot different from how it sounded in ancient times. The music that the Greeks used to play was much more theoretical and notational. The first of those who laid the groundwork for acoustic music was none other than Pythagoras. He was a Greek philosopher who influenced many future philosophers and was the first musical numerologist.
The Greeks made significant strides in the development of music, as they were the first ones to establish a relationship between string length, pitch, and notes. Music by different philosophers was considered a sub-branch of various subjects. Pythagoras considered it a branch of mathematics, while Plato considered it a field born of ethics. These different outlooks made it so it was examined with different lenses, hence making it easier to understand and study on a wider scale.
J.J. Tulips’ Music for Beginners: A Guide to Music is a comprehensive music guide compiling all of her experience from her musical journey and travels around the world. Her book makes it easy for any reader interested in picking up music as a casual hobby or as a professional skill.