Prehistoric music was essential to the development of human culture. Long before complex concepts, speech or writing, humans were already creating music! This prehistoric music spanned a vast period and likely emerged alongside the development of language and basic social structures. We know a lot about what ancient civilizations like Egypt, the Greeks or Romans thought of music and how …
From horses to locomotives: a short look into mobility. We all know the look on a teenager’s face when we are 5 minutes late from the agreed time of pick-up. Traveling with such speed as of today, estimating arrival time with such precision, in fact traveling itself, previously was never part of human experience and within the possibilities. Even …
In the first article on printing the focus was on printing in general, on the history and the techniques. In this second part we turn our attention to a more specific area, on printing music and music publishing. In the last part of this article there is a complete list and short history of each music publisher that were in …
Printing: a process of reproducing text or an image on paper or other materials through various techniques. Sounds simple, but its evolution has had far-reaching consequences. The history of printing is a remarkable human journey that has profoundly contributed to, and influenced human communication, knowledge distribution and consequently to the development of societies and humanity in general. In a …
Today, timekeeping is an integral part of our daily lives. The devices we use are very accurate and present everywhere. This was not the case for a very long time. Also in music, up till the invention of the metronome, timekeeping and tempo was rather based on individual feeling than science. Time to organize society Small tribes, later larger societies, …
Both Haydn and Beethoven were considered to have Moor ancestry. Who are the Moors and what is their story? I always liked Morgan Freeman, especially in Robin Hood playing Azeem the Moor. From centuries later they seem mysterious people, advanced in knowledge and technologies, but conservative and pious at the same time. I decided to go deeper and find …