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Vor 4 Tagen · Music first arose in the Paleolithic period, though it remains unclear as to whether this was the Middle (300,000 to 50,000 BP) or Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,000 BP). The vast majority of Paleolithic instruments have been found in Europe and date to the Upper Paleolithic.
Vor 5 Tagen · Music, art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony. Learn about the history of music and about theories of musical meaning since the 19th century.
- Gordon Epperson
Vor 4 Tagen · Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770, Bonn, archbishopric of Cologne [Germany]—died March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria) was a German composer, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. Widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived, Ludwig van Beethoven ...
- Beethoven is widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived, in no small part because of his ability—unlike any before him—to translate fe...
- Beethoven was born into a musical family. His father tried to make him into a child prodigy, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but did not succeed. Bee...
- Beethoven composed music in the transitional period between the Classical and the Romantic eras, and his work has been divided into (roughly) three...
- Beethoven was not born deaf, but he gradually became deaf. Although his deafness did not become total until 1819, the first symptoms of the impairm...
- Beethoven was an innovator of musical form. He widened the scope of the symphony, the sonata, the concerto, and the quartet and in so doing broke m...
Vor einem Tag · Music theory, or the formal system we use to study and understand music today, has its own rich history. An Italian monk named Guido of Arezzo (around 991–1050 AD) revolutionized Western music. He introduced a system of musical notation using a staff, creating a more efficient way to write and learn music—this was the foundation of what we use even now.
Vor 5 Tagen · Through forests and valleys and deserts and oceans they wandered, filling the air with music. Soon people learned to sing and play, and so did the trees and birds, the whales and wolves, the running streams, the crickets and frogs, and every other creature. From dawn to dusk the melodies spread until music covered the earth.
Vor 4 Tagen · As an archetype of the inspired singer, Orpheus is one of the most significant figures in the reception of classical mythology in Western culture, portrayed or alluded to in countless forms of art and popular culture including poetry, film, opera, music, and painting.
Vor 3 Tagen · the Beatles, British musical quartet and a global cynosure for the hopes and dreams of a generation that came of age in the 1960s. The principal members were John Lennon (b. October 9, 1940, Liverpool, Merseyside, England—d. December 8, 1980, New York, New York, U.S.), Paul McCartney (in full Sir James Paul McCartney; b.
