The earliest reported example of this musical form is the song " Kalenda Maya ", supposedly written by the troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras ( 1180-1207 ) to the melody of an estampida played by French jongleurs.

Aside from the voice, flutes are the earliest known musical instruments.

These flutes demonstrate that a developed musical tradition existed from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe.

The hard rock band KISS was also one of his earliest grade school musical influences and his shows often reflected this.

The earliest and largest collection of prehistoric musical instruments was found in China and dates back to between 7000 and 6600 BC.

The earliest material and representational evidence of Egyptian musical instruments dates to the Predynastic period, but the evidence is more securely attested in the Old Kingdom when harps, flutes and double clarinets were played.

The Journal of Religion and Theatre notes that among the earliest forms of litany, " Hebrew litany was accompanied by a rich musical tradition :"

Among Agricola's other theoretical works is Musica instrumentalis deudsch ( 1529 ), a study of musical instruments, and one of the most important works in early organology ; and one of the earliest books on the Rudiments of music.

The earliest form of musical notation can be found in a cuneiform tablet that was created at Nippur, Iraq in about 2000 B. C.

" By the middle of the 9th century, however, a form of neumatic notation began to develop in monasteries in Europe as a mnemonic device for Gregorian chant, using symbols known as neumes ; the earliest surviving musical notation of this type is in the Musica disciplina of Aurelian of Réôme, from about 850.

One of Moog's earliest musical customers was Wendy Carlos, whom he credits with providing feedback valuable to further development.

One of the earliest explicit descriptions of the instrument, including its tuning, was in the Epitome musical by Jambe de Fer, published in Lyon in 1556.

It was not until the publication of Rameau's ' Traité de l ' harmonie ' ( Treatise on Harmony ) in 1722 that any text discussing musical practice made use of the term in the title, though that work is not the earliest record of theoretical discussion of the topic.

It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format.

Around 1893, Ravel created his earliest compositions, and he was introduced by his father to the café pianist Erik Satie, whose distinctive personality and unorthodox musical experiments proved influential.

" Clark Humphrey, editor of Desperate Times, cites this as the earliest use of the term to refer to a Seattle band, and mentions that Bruce Pavitt of Sub Pop popularized the term as a musical label in 1987 – 88, using it on several occasions to describe Green River.

The many finds of bronze from this era include beautiful religious artifacts and musical instruments, and provide the earliest evidence of social classes and stratification.

One of the most famous Bolden numbers is a song called " Funky Butt " ( known later as " Buddy Bolden's Blues "), which represents one of the earliest references to the concept of " funk " in popular music, now a musical subgenre unto itself.

However, in the same article cited above, Bailey contends that free improvisation must have been the earliest musical style, because " mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

This earliest question mark was a decoration of one of these dots, with the " lightning flash " perhaps meant to denote intonation ( or a tilde or titlo, named after the Latin word titulus, as in “ ·~ ”, like those wavy and more or less slanted marks used in lots of medieval texts for denoting various things such as abbreviations, and that would become later various diacritics or ligatures or modified letters used in the Latin script ), and perhaps associated with early musical notation like neumes.

In his earliest parts he acted in a string of " mediocre " films, including swashbucklers, westerns, light comedies, sports films, and a musical.

The Journal of Religion and Theatre notes that among the earliest forms of litany, " Hebrew litany was accompanied by a rich musical tradition :"

Some of the earliest successes came from folk clubs, where performers such as Billy Connolly, Mike Harding and Jasper Carrott started as relatively straight musical acts whose between-song banter developed into complete comedy routines.

Israel Finkelstein proposed that the oval or circular layout that distinguishes some of the earliest highland sites, and the notable absence of pig bones from hill sites, could be taken as a marker of ethnicity, but others have cautioned that these can be a " common-sense " adaptation to highland life and not necessarily revelatory of origins.

Malmö was one of the earliest and most industrialized towns of Scandinavia, but it struggled with the adaptation to post-industrialism.

He appeared in many West End plays in the following few years and his earliest successes on the stage were as Hercule Poirot in Alibi ( 1928 ); he was the first actor to portray the Belgian detective in this stage adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and as William Marble in Payment Deferred, making his Lyceum Theatre ( New York ) debut in 1931.

The earliest known adaptation is the eleven minute 1908 The Taming of the Shrew directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Arthur V. Johnson and Florence Lawrence.

It is a short film consisting of the King's death throes in Act V, Scene vii and is the earliest surviving film adaptation of a Shakespearean play.

The earliest roots of emotional intelligence can be traced to Charles Darwin's work on the importance of emotional expression for survival and, second, adaptation.

Perhaps the earliest UK panel show is the BBC radio adaptation of Twenty Questions, which debuted on 28 February 1947.

* The earliest acknowledged adaptation of " The Tell-Tale Heart " was in a 1928 silent film of the same name directed by Leon Shamroy and starring Otto Matieson and Darvas.

The book formed the basis of the earliest adaptation of any work of Christie's when the play, Alibi, adapted by Michael Morton, opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London on May 15, 1928.

* A Curious Dream ( 1907 ) ( possibly the earliest adaptation of one of Mark Twain's works )

The earliest known mention of Rumpelstiltskin occurs in Johann Fischart's Geschichtklitterung, or Gargantua of 1577 ( a loose adaptation of Rabelais ' Gargantua and Pantagruel ) which refers to an " amusement " for children named " Rumpele stilt or the Poppart ".

Among Production I. G's earliest most notable works was the feature length cinematic anime adaptation of the Patlabor story, created by the group HEADGEAR.

The earliest animated form of tentacle assault was in the 1986 anime OVA Guyver: Out of Control which is an adaptation of the Bio Booster Armor Guyver manga.

Bickerton ( 2009 ) places the first emergence of such a proto-language with the earliest appearance of Homo, and associates its appearance with the pressure of behavioral adaptation to the niche construction of scavenging faced by Homo habilis.

The play was also one of the earliest Shakespearean works acted at the start of the Restoration ; Sir William Davenant's adaptation was staged in 1661, with Thomas Betterton in the role of Sir Toby Belch.

The earliest surviving full account of Madoc's voyage, as the first to make the claim that Madoc had come to America, appears in Humphrey Llwyd 1559 Cronica Walliae, an English adaptation of the Brut y Tywysogion.

Dolores Costello's earliest listed credit on the IMDb is in the role of a fairy in a 1909 adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

In 1955, while dancing in the chorus in the Sammy Davis, Jr. show Mr. Wonderful, Kert was recommended by his fellow dancer and friend Chita Rivera, who eventually won the role of Anita in West Side Story ,, to audition as a dancer for Gangway during the earliest Broadway pre-production of the Arthur Laurents-Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim musical later titled West Side Story, an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set on the west side of mid-town Manhattan in the 1950s.

Another of the CBC's earliest productions was a television adaptation of one of the enduring classics of Canadian humour writing, Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.

One of the earliest Southern Comfort-based cocktails to be marketed was the Scarlett O ' Hara, concocted in tribute to the release of the film adaptation of Gone with the Wind in 1939.

It is an adaptation of the famously " unfilmable " The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, one of the earliest novels.

* 1938 The first English-language adaptation to be televised was made in 1938 by the BBC and starred Leslie Banks in one of the earliest live television broadcasts.

His earliest known credit was for a 1912 adaptation of Ivanhoe.

From the earliest days of cinema, in nineteenth century Europe, adaptation from such diverse resources has been a ubiquitous practice of film-making.