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During the 9th century, several important developments took place. First, there was a major effort by the Church to unify the many chant traditions and suppress many of them in favor of the Gregorian liturgy. Second, the earliest polyphonic music was sung, a form of parallel singing known as organum.
Invention (musical composition) first bars of J.S. Bach's 4th invention in D minor ( BWV 775 ). In music, an invention is a short composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) in two-part counterpoint. (Compositions in the same style as an invention but using three-part counterpoint are known as sinfonias.
Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view. In theory, "music history" could refer to the study of the history of any type or genre of music (e.g., the history of Nigerian music or the history of rock ).
Music has been expanded by invention over the course of thousands of years. Timeline - dates may be approximations. 35,000 BCE - The first bone flutes were made in Germany. 8800 BCE - The first bone flutes which could play the standard pitch A6 were made in China. 5000 BCE - The first flutes were made in India out of wood.
However, other inventors before Bell had worked on the development of the telephone and the invention had several pioneers. [428] 1877: Thomas Edison invents the first working phonograph. [429] 1878: Henry Fleuss is granted a patent for the first practical rebreather. [430] 1878: Lester Allan Pelton invents the Pelton wheel.
Saxophone produced by Sax. Antoine-Joseph " Adolphe " Sax ( French: [ɑ̃twan ʒozɛf adɔlf saks]; 6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) [ a] was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba, and redesigned the bass clarinet in a fashion ...
Actinium by André-Louis Debierne in 1899. [ 54][ 55] Discovery of the Grignard reaction or Grignard reagent by Victor Grignard [ 56] in 1900. Verneuil process (method to manufacture synthetic gemstones) by Auguste Verneuil in 1902. Laminated glass by the French chemist Edouard Benedictus in 1903.
1877 : Thomas Edison and Emile Berliner simultaneously invented the first prototypes of the phonograph. 1888 : Thomas Edison introduces the electric motor-driven phonograph. 1896 : Edwin S. Votey completes the first Pianola. 1898 : Valdemar Poulsen patents the Telegraphone. 1906 : Thaddeus Cahill introduces the Telharmonium to the public.