Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The find has been variously dated, but the first or second century AD is the most probable guess. One authority states that on grounds of paleography the inscription can be "securely dated to the first century C.E.", [8] while on the same basis (the use of swallow-tail serifs, the almost triangular Φ with prolongation below, ligatures between N, H, and M, and above all the peculiar form of ...
Arguably, these circa 1887 experiments by Berliner were the first known reproductions of sound from phonautograph recordings. [16] However, as far as is known, no attempt was ever made to use this method to play any of the surviving early phonautograms made by Scott de Martinville.
Ring-and-spring microphones, such as this Western Electric microphone, were common during the electrical age of sound recording c. 1925–45.. The second wave of sound recording history was ushered in by the introduction of Western Electric's integrated system of electrical microphones, electronic signal amplifiers and electromechanical recorders, which was adopted by major US record labels in ...
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.
Singer Dinah Shore recorded a version of the song for Bluebird Records in 1941. Singer Nat King Cole produced the most well-known recording of "Daisy Bell" as part of his Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer LP for Capitol Records in 1961. On May 3, 2014, an album was released composed entirely of covers of "Daisy Bell" entitled The Gay ...
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.
It is interesting that the Pine Ridge Boys recorded the song on Aug. 22, 1939, and released it on Oct. 6, 1939. It was recorded in Atlanta and no songwriter was listed.
These songs, recorded solo in improvised studios, were the sum of his recorded output. Most were released as 10-inch, 78 rpm singles from 1937–1938 , with a few released after his death. Other than these recordings, very little was known of his life outside of the small musical circuit in the Mississippi Delta where he spent most of his time.