Some of the oldest-known written musical notation has been dated back to around 1250 B.C. The image to the left is some of the oldest discovered musical notation: a stone found at Delphi containing two hymns to the Roman god, Apollo. The musical notation is the line of occasional symbols found above the uninterrupted line of Greek lettering.
Before a system of written music was developed, songs were passed down from generation to generation by ear - younger generations learned...
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