San Francisco-based early music ensemble Voices of Music plays Italian composer and lutenist Andrea Falconieri’s Folias (La Folia), with the original instruments. Recorded at the “Art of the Recorder” concert, February 2014.
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Researchers discovered the oldest known piece of polyphonic music
The oldest known piece of polyphonic music, a piece of choral music written for more than one part, was recently found at the bottom of a 10th century manuscript in the British Library, London. It is believed to date back to the start of the 10th century and is the setting of a short chant …
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The Oldest Song in the World
Written about 3,400 years ago, this Sumerian hymn is the oldest song ever discovered in the world. According to an article published on RichardDawkins.net, several clay tablets from the 14th-century B.C.E which are unearthed by archaeologists in the early 1950s turned out to be the oldest known piece of music ever discovered, a 3,400-years-old Sumerian …