Rhythm in Greek Temples
Temple of Zeus at Cyrene (North Africa) Greek architects weren't just copying their old wooden temples for the fun of it though, or just because they couldn't think of any [...]
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Music in ancient Egypt
Egyptian music and musicians The earliest Egyptian music People in Egypt, like other people in Africa, have probably been playing music since the early Stone Age, long before there is [...]
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How to make a Greek lyre – Ancient Greece project
Greek lyre, made by 6th graders at Laurelhurst School, Portland Ancient Greek music People in ancient Greece loved music, which they thought was a way of creating order out of [...]
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Chinese instruments and music – Early China
A Chinese musician playing a qin Ocarina, Han Dynasty (200 BC-200 AD)(Metropolitan Museum, New York) The first people who came to China, about 50,000 BC, brought their music with them [...]
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Central Asian Music
Chinese woman playing an erhu: early bowed instruments Plucking a hunting bow to make music Central Asia was the place where people invented the ancestors of violins and cellos. Siberian or Mongolian [...]
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History of Music and Musical Instruments
A rock gong in Africa from the Stone Age The first music Birds probably made music long before people, perhaps soon after they evolved in the late Jurassic period, about [...]
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Early African music
Early African music: Rock gong from Sudan (Tim Karberg/Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster) Rock gongs and flutes One of the earliest kinds of musical instrument in Africa was the rock gong. A [...]
