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  2. Cangjiepian - Wikipedia

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    The eponymous Cangjiepian title derives from the culture hero Cangjie, the legendary Yellow Emperor's historian and inventor of Chinese writing.According to Chinese mythology, Cangjie, who had four eyes and remarkable cognizance, created Chinese characters after observing natural phenomena such as the footprints of birds and animals.

  3. Cangjie - Wikipedia

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    Cangjie [tsʰáŋ.tɕjě] (Chinese: 倉頡) is a legendary ancient Chinese figure said to have been an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters. [1] Legend has it that he had four eyes, and that when he invented the characters, the deities and ghosts cried and the sky rained millet .

  4. Fuxi - Wikipedia

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    Fuxi or Fu Hsi (伏羲) [a] [1] is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music, [2] hunting, fishing, domestication, [3] and cooking, as well as the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters around 2900 BC [4] or 2000 BC.

  5. Modernism (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in ...

  6. Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    Huang Di's wife Leizu is supposed to have invented sericulture. In some versions Cangjie invented writing during the reign of Huang Di. The Yellow Emperor is said to have fought a great battle against Chiyou. Huangdi had various wives and many descendants, including Shaohao (leader of the Dongyi).

  7. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    The process of interpreting musical notation is often referred to as reading music. Distinct methods of notation have been invented throughout history by various cultures. Much information about ancient music notation is fragmentary. Even in the same time frames, different styles of music and different cultures use different music notation methods.

  8. List of music theorists - Wikipedia

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    Harmonic Materials of Modern Music: Resources of the Tempered Scale (1960) Nascent development of set theory: Erwin Ratz: 1898–1973 Einführung in die musikalische Formenlehre [Introduction to Musical Form] Musical analysis of form and structure [187] Felix Salzer: 1904–1986 Lev Abramovich Mazel' born 1907 O melodii (1952)

  9. History of writing - Wikipedia

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    Each historical invention of writing emerged from systems of proto-writing that used ideographic and mnemonic symbols but were not capable of fully recording spoken language. True writing exists when the content of linguistic utterances can be accurately reconstructed by later readers, is a later development. As proto-writing is not capable of ...