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1684 - Events. December 10 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley. France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Empire and Spain. Pope Innocent XI forms a Holy League with the Habsburg Empire, Venice and Poland to liberate Europe from the Ottoman Turkish rule. Japanese Chief Minister Hotta Masatoshi is assassinate ... Including:

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1762 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1762 - Events. Jean-Jacques Rousseau first publishes The Social Contract (Du Contrat Social).< ... Including:

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October 6 - 1289 to 1899. 1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306) 1459 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507) 1510 - Rowland Taylor, English clergyman (d. 1555) 1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610) 1573 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624) 1610 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690) 1716 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Hali ...

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The development of music among humans occurred against the backdrop of natural sounds. It was, in all probability, influenced by birdsong and the sounds other animals use to communicate. Some evolutionary biologists have theorized that the ability to recognize sounds not created by humans as "musical" provides a selective advantage. (See animal music.) Prehistoric music, once more commonly called primitive music, is the name given ...

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The prehistoric era is considered to have ended with the development of writing, and with it, by definition, prehistoric music. "Ancient music" is the name given to the music that followed. Ancient music was long thought to be all monophonic, but recent archaeological evidence indicates that this view is no longer true. The "oldest known song" in cuneiform, 4,000 years old from Ur, deciphered by Prof. Anne Draffkorn Kilmer (University of Calif. at Berkeley), was demonstrated to be composed in harmonies of thirds, like ancient English ...

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Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. Folk music arose, and best survives, in societies not yet affected by mass communication and the commercialization of culture. It normally was shared and performed by the entire community (not by a special class of expert or professional performers, possibly excluding the idea of amateurs), and was transmitted by word of mouth (oral tradition). During the 20th century, the term folk music took on a second meaning: it describes a particular kind of popular mu ...

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