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By 700 BCE there are records of songs that include vocals with instrumentals.
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Music began around 500 B.C. when Pythagoras experimentd with acoustics
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Towards the end of the Middle Ages about the 12th and 13th centuries, music began to move outside the church and into everyday life
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The earliest forms of music were probably drum-based, percussion instruments being the most readily available at the time (i.e. rocks, sticks).
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In Denmark, by 2500 BCE an early form of the trumpet had been developed. This trumpet is what is now known as a "natural trumpet." It is valveless, and depends completely on manipulation of the lips to change pitch.
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One of the most popular instruments today, the guitar, was created in 1500 BCE by the Hittites.
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In 800 BCE the first recovered piece of recorded music was found. It was written in cuneiform and was a religious hymn.
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It was made on April 9, 1860 and it is of a woman singing the French folk song “Claire de la lune”.
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the first CD made in the United States for commercial release was Bruce Springsteen's 1984 album, "Born in the U.S.A."
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The Moondog Coronation Ball
