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The find has been variously dated, but the first or second century AD is the most probable guess. One authority states that on grounds of paleography the inscription can be "securely dated to the first century C.E.", [8] while on the same basis (the use of swallow-tail serifs, the almost triangular Φ with prolongation below, ligatures between N, H, and M, and above all the peculiar form of ...
An entrance to the royal palace at Ugarit, where the Hurrian songs were found. The arrangement of tablet h.6 places the Hurrian words of the hymn at the top, under which is a double division line. The hymn text is written in a continuous spiral, alternating recto-verso sides of the tablet—a layout not found in Babylonian texts. [15]
The oldest surviving written music is the Hurrian songs from Ugarit, Syria. Of these, the oldest is the Hymn to Nikkal (hymn no. 6; h. 6), which is somewhat complete and dated to c. 1400 BCE. [69] However, the Seikilos epitaph is the earliest entirely complete noted musical composition.
The lyrics of the Oxyrhynchus hymn were written in Greek, and poetically invoke silence for the praise of the Holy Trinity (i.e. cosmic stillness, a motif of ancient Greek hymnody). [3] Historically, the hymn demonstrates Greek civilizational continuity where erudite Christian Greeks used and accepted the musical notation of their classical ...
The songs on No Plan are stated to be the last three songs Bowie had ever recorded in his lifetime. Live Nassau Coliseum '76 was released on February 10, 2017, a year after his death. Two months later, another live album called Cracked Actor was released on April 22, 2017. Welcome to the Blackout was released on April 21, 2018, two years after ...
Songs by the year in which they were written, or first performed, published, recorded, or released. See also the categories Albums by year and Music by year This is a container category .
Dan W. Quinn produced a wax cylinder recording of "Daisy Bell" in 1893, the first recorded rendition of the song. Singer Dinah Shore recorded a version of the song for Bluebird Records in 1941. Singer Nat King Cole produced the most well-known recording of "Daisy Bell" as part of his Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer LP for Capitol Records ...
It was first recorded in 1889 on an Edison cylinder; this recording, believed to be the first Christmas record, is lost, but an 1898 recording—also from Edison Records—survives. [5] It has been claimed that the song was originally written to be sung by a Sunday school choir for Thanksgiving, or as a drinking song. [6]