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From classical to Blues, high Baroque to modern Rock and Roll, the following collection of music trivia and facts is a delight for any music-lover.<\/p>\nFrom classical to Blues, high Baroque to modern Rock and Roll, the following collection of music trivia and facts is a delight for any music-lover.<\/p>\n
Aristotle famously laid his foundations for music theory in approximately 340 B.C.<\/p>\n
Harps and flutes are among the first musical instruments.\u00a0 These have been traced to Egypt dating to roughly 4000 B.C.
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\nThe trumpet is believed to hail from Denmark-roughly 2000 B.C.<\/p>\n
Trumpet competitions were being held in Greece around the year 400 B.C.<\/p>\n
Among the earliest writings on earth is a hymn written in Cuneiform on a Sumerian tablet.<\/p>\n
The vina is an Indian instrument comprised of two gourds and strings.\u00a0 It is believed to be the progenitor of all stringed instruments.<\/p>\n
An early form of the oboe dates from 50 B.C. in Rome.<\/p>\n
The first organ to boast four hundred pipes was located in England’s Winchester Monastery around the year 980.<\/p>\n
Roaming Troubadour music and musicians first hailed from France in 1125.<\/p>\n
Holland served as the epicenter of European music around 1425.<\/p>\n
Some traditional Japanese stringed instruments include the gekkin, shamisen and koto.<\/p>\n
Antonio Vivaldi was born March 4, 1678.<\/p>\n
German-born English composer George Frideric Handel was born in 1685.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Likewise, Johannes Sebastian Bach was also born in 1685.\u00a0 Bach wrote his first cantata in 1704.<\/p>\n
Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the pianoforte in 1709.<\/p>\n
In 1713, the Paris Opera formed its first School of Dance.<\/p>\n
The first Parisian vaudeville performances occurred in 1715.<\/p>\n
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Swedish opera prima donna Jenny Lind was born in 1820.\u00a0 After settling in England, she spent the latter part of her life teaching at the Royal College of Music.<\/p>\n
Famous Italian tenor Enrico Caruso was born in 1873.\u00a0 A self-portrait of the singer can be found today at the New York Public Library.<\/p>\n
Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, is believed to have been born in 1885 in Mooringsport, Louisiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1907 saw the first Ziegfeld Follies appear on a New York stage.<\/p>\n
Irving Berlin wrote “Alexander’s Ragtime Band in 1911.<\/p>\n
Singer-songwriter Carole King was born February 9, 1941.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some popular songs of 1941 include “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” and “Deep in the Heart of Texas.”<\/p>\n
John Lennon’s wife and sometimes songwriting partner Yoko Ono was born February 18, 1933.<\/p>\n
“Rock Around the Clock” was one of 1955’s most popular songs.<\/p>\n
In 1958 Samuel Barber won a Pulitzer Prize for his opera, “Vanessa.”<\/p>\n
1950s singer Pat Boone claims to be related to early American frontiersman Daniel Boone.<\/p>\n
The Beatles formed in 1959 and hail from Liverpool.\u00a0 The Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.<\/p>\n
Jan and Dean enjoyed their only number one hit in 1963.\u00a0 It was co-written by Beach Boys’s leader Brian Wilson.<\/p>\n
The Grateful Dead formed in 1965 in San Francisco.\u00a0 In 1978, the band played three concerts at the foot of Egypt’s Great Pyramid.<\/p>\n
Singer Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkasian LaPier in 1946.<\/p>\n
English legendary band Led Zeppelin was comprised of members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Duran Duran formed in 1978 in Birmingham, England.\u00a0 Their first European hit single was “Planet Earth.”<\/p>\n
The band A Flock of Seagulls was formed in Liverpool in 1980.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Christian Singer Amy Grant hails from Augusta, Georgia.<\/p>\n
Singer Sheryl Crow was once a backup singer for Michael Jackson.\u00a0 Crow hails from a farming town in Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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