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The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Commonly dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD, the inscription was found engraved on a pillar ( stele ) from the ancient Hellenistic town of Tralles (present-day Turkey ) in 1883.
Ugarit, where the Hurrian songs were found. The complete song is one of about 36 such hymns in cuneiform writing, found on fragments of clay tablets excavated in the 1950s from the Royal Palace at Ugarit (present-day Ras Shamra, Syria), [5] in a stratum dating from the fourteenth century BC, [6] but is the only one surviving in substantially complete form.
Austro-Hungarian-born pianist and one of the oldest Holocaust survivors [63] Randolph Hokanson: 1915–2018: 103: American pianist [64] Dolores Hope: 1909–2011: 102: American singer and philanthropist; wife of Bob Hope [65] Mieczysław Horszowski: 1892–1993: 100: Polish pianist [66] Francis Jackson: 1917–2022: 104: British organist ...
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The song "Pamulinawen" is perhaps the most well-known song in the Ilocos region of the Philippines that pre-dates the arrival of the Spanish in 1521. The scholar Leopoldo Yabes wrote in 1936 that it is actually possibly the oldest song still known from the pre-Spanish era.
The fruits of their labors was a declamatory melodic singing style known as monody, and a corresponding staged dramatic form: a form known today as opera. The first operas, written around 1600, also define the end of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Baroque eras. Music prior to 1600 was modal rather than tonal.
Although the composer's identity is unknown today, it may have been W. de Wycombe [3] or a monk at Reading Abbey, John of Fornsete [Wikidata]. [4] The manuscript in which it is preserved was copied between 1261 and 1264. [3] This rota is the oldest known musical composition featuring six-part polyphony. [5]
The world's oldest known wild bird has laid an egg at the approximate age of 74, US biologists say. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, was filmed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) at the Midway ...