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  2. Music history - Wikipedia

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    The terms "music history" and "historical musicology" usually refer to the history of the notated music of Western elites, sometimes called "art music" (by analogy to art history, which tends to focus on elite art). The methods of music history include source studies (esp. manuscript studies), paleography, philology (especially textual ...

  3. History of music - Wikipedia

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    "But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."

  4. Periods in Western art history - Wikipedia

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    This is a chronological list of periods in Western art history. An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement.

  5. Timeline for invention in the arts - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. History of art - Wikipedia

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    The history of art is often told as a chronology of masterpieces created during each civilization. It can thus be framed as a story of high culture, epitomized by the Wonders of the World. On the other hand, vernacular art expressions can also be integrated into art historical narratives, referred to as folk arts or craft.

  7. List of classical and art music traditions - Wikipedia

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    Earliest historical period Notes Carnatic music: At least 6th century AD (as Indian classical music), split from Hindustani classical music in the 16th and 17th centuries. [2] [3]: 249 Hindustani classical music: At least 6th century AD (as Indian classical music), split from Carnatic music in the 16th and 17th centuries. [2] [4] Klasik

  8. Art history - Wikipedia

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    Venus de Milo, at the Louvre. Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past. [1]Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes ...

  9. Timeline of art - Wikipedia

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    1974 in art – Death of Adolph Gottlieb, William C. Seitz, For the first time in art history, the chemogram invented by Josef H. Neumann closed the separation of the painterly background and the photographic layer in a symbiosis of painting and real photographic perspective.