Task 9. Choose the correct option. Music Nobody knows for certain what the (1) _______ of music was. Music is certainly older than poetry and painting but as early man had no way of (2) _______ it, we can only (3) _______ what it sounded like. Watching a child (4) _______ on a drum with his hands or a (5) _______ of wood, it is easy to see that this is the simplest of instruments. It does not (6) _______ much effort to produce a rhythm on it. Wall paintings show what some of the instruments (7) _______ like. Early civilizations had already discovered the three basic (8) _______ of producing music: blowing into a tube, striking an object, and scraping a string. We know that western music comes from the (9) _______ Greeks. The musical scales we use now are (10) _______ on certain sequences of notes which the Greek used to create a particular (11) _______. Until the sixteenth century, most players of instruments were (12) _______ performers, but as music became more (13) _______, orchestras and musical groups began to (14) _______. This (15) _______ about the writing of music to be played by several musicians at one time. This can certainly be (16) _______ the birth of modern music. (1) a) origin b) age c) spring d) growth