This is evident with NATO and the Warsaw Pact or the European Common Market and COMECON. But interestingly enough, the Eastern countries also had a response to something much less serious. In 1977, the ISC, the Intervision Song Contest, was born, which, as you can guess, was a copy of the Eurovision Song Contest in […]
Songs
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Petroglyphs Discovered in Southern Peru Depict Songs Related to Cosmological Rituals
One of the richest sites in rock art in South America is found in Toro Muerto, in southern Peru. A unique aspect of the iconography of the petroglyphs at the site is the figures of dancing people, called “dancers”, which are often associated with geometric motifs, mainly variants of zigzag lines. Building upon intriguing data […]
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The Delphic Hymns to Apollo are the Earliest Songs with Notated Music whose Composer is Known
Although the Seikilos Epitaph, dating from the first century A.D., is the oldest surviving full song with musical notation and text, and we know its author, Seikilos, there are some older compositions. The Delphic Hymns to Apollo, found inscribed on fragments of the outer wall of the Athenian Treasury at the sanctuary of Delphi, are […]
