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Music is a strange essence of life, it has the power to make us do things we would not normally do. It exerts a pull, and makes us feel things deep inside. Why exactly? We really don't know. The following is an analytical piece about the value of music in today's society and how it came to be so.

A Culture Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
What would the world be like without music? What used to be a stress-free past time is now a booming industry in modern America where musicians rise and musicians fall, where some are made rich and some never recognized. The humble origins of such chaos are rooted very deep, in not only American history, but also world history.

The value of music is under debate due to the copious amounts of people who employ sites like Lime Wire to acquire their music. Now that technology is threatening to enervate music, people have been forced to decide what it really means to them. It is a rather enigmatic stroke of action that the British rock band Radiohead took in order to find out exactly what music does mean to people. While Radiohead intends to find out the value of music, others intend to find out what it means to us as a culture. Music is good for us as a culture. It is timeless and will continue to be timeless as long as there are people around to appreciate it.

Music has been around ever since a caveman first beat a stick on a rock, and gave birth to percussion. Music is obviously more advanced now. For example, major time periods of musical advancement were the Renaissance and Baroque periods. This is where music started to become an art form rather than a religious entity. The only music before these periods was church music and the church chorus due to the religious based society that existed before. "Mozart, Bach, Byrd, and Palestrina" were all key musicians of these eras (The Renaissance and Baroque Periods, 1). Organ-based instruments such as the harpsichord, and the clavichord, the predecessors of the piano, dominated this period. They were always the focal point of a show. These musicians and their music brought about change. Instruments were invented, and music was separated from the insipid use of the church chorus, which represented the majority of music before these periods.

Just as Renaissance and Baroque music were the forerunners for modern music, a musical form known as the "blues" has paid its debts as well in the origins and development of western music. Nearly all of modern, western music derived from the blues and

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