history

    Top: Kids_and_Teens: Arts: Music: History:

• - Describes the musical information found in archaeological finds, stone-carvings and rock-paintings and suggests why music was used by prehistoric man.
  
• - Simple descriptions with illustrations of the main instruments played in Ancient Rome.
  
• - Describes the musical notation found on papyri and includes audio samples of these melodies.
  
• - Listen to music and fragments of melody by composers in Greece during the first century BC.
  
• - Information about instruments, players and composers in Ancient Greece and Rome. Includes theory, the hydraulic organ, pan-pipes and army-music.
  
• - Article tracing the roots of music through an explanation of pre-historic forms and instruments.
  
• - Description of the origins, notation and instruments used. Includes illustrations and charts of different modes.
  
• - Information about the discovery of a set of prehistoric pipes in Ireland. Includes photographs and a discussion of how they were played.