compare and contrast: Music and art by mickey:3

In Mesopotamia, The Sumerians was creating many arts and music. They played music and created art for their religion and entertainment themselves. Now, we can find many art and music instrument that appear on museum. This essay will show how their slimily in both entertainment based on Motivation, material-equipment, what they used for.

Since Mesopotamia, Sumerians was played music and created art for their religion it’s according to ezinearticles.com, 2010 “Painting and sculpture was the main median used and art was primarily used for religious purposes.” It’s show that Sumerian has motivation to create the art from their god of religion. Some songs were written for the gods but many were written to describe important events. (Wikipedia,2010) it also show that Music are has motivation from their religion too.

Art based on the real world according to www.huntfor.com, 2010 “Gods took on human forms and humans were combined with animals to make fantastic creatures and humans were combined with animals to make fantastic creatures” it’s show that their can’t imagine faraway form their real world and daily life. Music‘re also based on their Daily life. e.g. Marriages and births in the royal families.(Wikipedia.2010)

They’d both two are made out form nature material. “Oud, the stringed instrument they made form wood and many other instruments are made form wood and ox skin” (Wikipedia, 2010) “The soil of Mesopotamia yielded the civilization's major building material - mud brick. Stone was rare, and certain types had to be imported for sculpture. Variety of metals, as well as shells and precious stones, were used for the finest sculpture and inlays.” (huntfor.com,2010) It show that their used natured to created art.

As you can see, their both are very similar. They are all used for the entertainment them self, religion and royal families. Material to create them too

References: http://ezinearticles.com/?Sumerian-Art&id=1890089

http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/ancient/mesopotamia.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Mesopotamia