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Singing

  • SingingSinging is the oldest form of musical expression, and some scholars consider the human voice to be the first musical instrument.
  • OperaJacopo Peri wrote Dafne around 1597 for an elite circle of literate Florentine humanists known as the Camerata de' Bardi.
  • A cappellaA cuneiform tablet from around 2000 BC contains the earliest known instructions for performing music. This artifact predates the Seikilos epitaph, a Greek…
  • KaraokeIn 1971, a bandleader named Daisuke Inoue sat in a car stereo inside a box he called the 8 Juke. He placed this machine in snack bars across Sannomiya, an…