History of music
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Although definitions of music vary wildly throughout the world, every known culture partakes in it, and it is thus considered a cultural universal. The origins of music remain highly contentious; comm
The monumental Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, c. 5th century BCE, from Hubei
Two musicians of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 CE), Shanghai Museum
The Bull Headed Lyre of Ur, found in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, is the best known of the ancient Lyres of Ur
Terracotta statue of a Parthian lute player
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was a French printer, bookseller and inventor.
History of music
…own mythical origins concerning the invention of music, generally rooted in their respective mythological, religious or philosophical beliefs. While Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was the first ever person to record sound, the music of prehistoric cultures is first firmly dated to c. 38,000 BC of the Upper Paleolithic by evidence…
Illustration of a phonautograph. The inside of the barrel is made of Plaster of Paris.