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The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation. [1] Commonly dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD, the inscription was found engraved on a pillar from the ancient Hellenistic town of Tralles (present-day Turkey) in 1883.
Ugarit, where the Hurrian songs were found. The complete song is one of about 36 such hymns in cuneiform writing, found on fragments of clay tablets excavated in the 1950s from the Royal Palace at Ugarit (present-day Ras Shamra, Syria), [5] in a stratum dating from the fourteenth century BC, [6] but is the only one surviving in substantially complete form.
The oldest surviving written music is the Hurrian songs from Ugarit, Syria. Of these, the oldest is the Hymn to Nikkal (hymn no. 6; h. 6), which is somewhat complete and dated to c. 1400 BCE. [69] However, the Seikilos epitaph is the earliest entirely complete noted musical composition.
That song peaked at number 76 in 2019, when Blue Ivy was seven. [214] (Notably, Blue Ivy is the youngest person ever to appear on any Billboard chart, featuring on "Glory" by her father Jay-Z, which was recorded and released two days after her birth.
FILE - Country music legend George Jones plays in Anderson, S.C., on February 7, 2003. Jones once called “You Are My Sunshine” the most perfect song ever written.
The newest song in the top 100 is currently "Seven" by Jung Kook and Latto (2023), while the oldest song in the top 100 currently is Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975). Nine songs are known to have claimed the top of the ranking, beginning with " Viva la Vida " by the British band Coldplay in 2008.
The earliest material and representational evidence of Egyptian musical instruments dates to the Predynastic period, but the evidence is more trustably attested in tomb paintings from the Old Kingdom (c. 2575–2134 BCE) when harps, end-blown flutes (held diagonally), and single and double pipes of the clarinet type (with single reeds) were played.
That song, Daisy Bell, first became successful in a London music hall, in a performance by Katie Lawrence. Tony Pastor was the first to sing it in the United States. Its success in America began when Jennie Lindsay brought down the house with it at the Atlantic Gardens on the Bowery early in 1892.