Isaiah 52: 13 – 53: 12, the fourth of the " Suffering Servant " songs, was interpreted by the earliest Christians as a prophecy of the death and exaltation of Jesus, a role which Jesus himself seems to have accepted ( Luke 4: 17 – 21 ).

To, the Toledo codex now kept in the National Library in Madrid, is the earliest collection and contains 129 songs.

Sessions for the planned album Toy, intended to feature new versions of some of Bowie's earliest pieces as well as three new songs, commenced in 2000, but the album was never released.

Since the earliest times, Christians have sung " psalms and hymns and spiritual songs ", both in private devotions and in corporate worship (; ; ; ; ; cf.

The earliest karaoke-based music video game, called Karaoke Studio, was released for the Nintendo Famicom in 1985, but its limited computing ability made for a short catalog of songs and therefore reduced replay value.

Many of the earliest white rock and roll hits were covers or partial re-writes of earlier black rhythm and blues or blues songs.

* May 9 – Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya the mystic saint composer of the 15th century is the earliest known musician of South India to compose songs called " sankIrtanas " in praise of Lord Venkateswara, the deity of Seven Hills in Tirumala.

Among his earliest memories are folk songs she sang to him.

Rush songs such as " Bastille Day ", " Anthem ", " By-Tor and Snow Dog ", " 2112 ", " The Fountain of Lamneth " and " Something for Nothing " have been cited as some of the earliest examples of progressive metal.

Throughout his life, from his earliest songs to the final Four Last Songs of 1948, he preferred the soprano voice to all others, and all his operas contain important soprano roles.

Bizet's earliest compositions, chiefly songs and keyboard pieces written as exercises, give early indications of his emergent power and his gifts as a melodist.

They did however, perform live with their earliest songs such as " Venus " and " Never Marry a Railroad Man " in 1980.

Among his earliest songs was " Lonely Boy " ( 1956 ), " The Man From Galilee " ( 1956 ) " inspired by Sunday School stories ", the unreleased " Bopping With My Girl "; " My Feet are on the Rock " ( 1958 ), " The Thanksgiving Song " ( 1959 ); " Country Church, Country People " ( 1959 ), was written for his grandmother Lena.

Some of the earliest portable MP3 players required a parallel port connection for transferring songs to the device.

The Wailers composed several songs for the American-born singer Johnny Nash before teaming with producer Lee Perry to record some of the earliest well-known reggae songs, including " Soul Rebel ", " Duppy Conqueror ", and " Small Axe ".

The earliest significant experiences in his artistic development came, Delius later asserted, from the sounds of the plantation songs carried down the river to him at Solano Grove.

Loewe's earliest songs, such as the Acht Jugenlieder and the Anakreontische Lieder, follow the musical pattern of the late 18th century tradition, using a single melodic line, basic accompaniment, and mostly strophic and varied strophic forms.

The earliest chants, litanies, and hymns were Latin works intended for use during the church liturgy, rather than popular songs.

One of the earliest Japanese songs that was said to have partly used it is Rentarō Taki's " Kōjō no Tsuki ," which was called or " school song " in the Meiji period.

This song was one of the earliest prototypical rock and roll songs, and was covered by Jerry Lee Lewis and Mike Bloomfield's Electric Flag ( as " Wine ").

As a young man he worked briefly at his older brother Harry Von Tilzer's publishing company, and Albert's earliest songs were published by Harry.

The track " Open My Eyes " has been said to be the inspiration behind one of the earliest songs written by KISS, " Love Her All I Can ", a song originally intended for the pre-KISS band Wicked Lester.

These tapes featured their earliest material and the first recordings of some songs that were later on their 1994 release, Trailer, including " Intense Thing ", " Get Out ", " Obscure Thing ," and their future single, " Jack Names the Planets ".

He is the earliest Greek poet who claims explicitly to be writing for future generations, creating " fame that will reach all of Greece, and never die while the Greek kind of songs survives.

The afterlife played an important role in Ancient Egyptian religion, and its belief system is one of the earliest known.

Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.

The club played its earliest seasons at the Motovelodromo Appio stadium, before settling in the working-class streets of Testaccio, where it built an all-wooden ground Campo Testaccio ; this was opened in November 1929.

Board games have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history ; some even pre-date literacy skill development in the earliest civilizations.

Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.

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.

In 1879 Essendon played Melbourne in one of the earliest night matches recorded when the ball was painted white.

One of the earliest was a 1998 commercial for Honey Nut Cheerios, where he played the voice of the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood.

" My playmates were native Greenlanders ; from the earliest boyhood I played and worked with the hunters, so even the hardships of the most strenuous sledge-trips became pleasant routine for me.

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.

Scheduled on the 9th day of January, the game marks the earliest Super Bowl played during the calendar year.

François Rabelais gives tarau as the name of one of the games played by Gargantua in his Gargantua and Pantagruel ; this is likely the earliest attestation of the French form of the name.

The earliest match in CricketArchive which involved Grace was in 1859, only a few days after his eleventh birthday, when he played for Clifton Cricket Club against the South Wales Cricket Club at Durdham Down, his team winning by 114 runs.

* The approximate date of the earliest known blindfold chess, played by Sa ' id ibn Jubayr

Also at the Fair, the Chicago Athletic Association Football team played one of the very first night football games against West Point ( the earliest being on September 28, 1892 between Mansfield State Normal and Wyoming Seminary ).

The earliest Welsh genealogies give Maximus the role of founding father for several royal dynasties, including those of Powys and Gwent, a role he also played for the rulers of medieval Galloway in Scotland, home to the Roman-era Novantae whose territory was also made independent of Roman rule by Maximus.

The first popular " arcade games " were early amusement park midway games such as shooting galleries, ball toss games, and the earliest coin-operated machines, such as those that claim to tell a person their fortune or played mechanical music.

Increased volcanic activity also introduced into the marine environment biologically active nutrients, which may have played an important role in the development of the earliest animals.

In his earliest days, Gabriel played flute on Cat Stevens's first album on the Island records label, Mona Bone Jakon as a " nervous session musician ".

In the earliest episodes of the series, two Secret Square games were played on each show with a different prize offered for each game.

Punishment for malevolent sorcery addressed in the earliest law codes preserved ; both in ancient Egypt and in Babylonia it played a conspicuous part.

The banjo and bass duets Earl Scruggs played even in the earliest days of the Foggy Mountain Boys hint at the wild chord progressions to come.

The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called " base-ball "

It played a central role in King Philip's War, one of the earliest of the Indian Wars.

Five-card stud is the earliest form of the card game stud poker, originating during the American Civil War, but is less commonly played today than many other more popular poker games.