The Varsity Show is an annual musical written by and for students and was established in 1894, making it one of Columbia's oldest traditions.

Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years.

The discovery was also the oldest confirmed find of any musical instrument in history, until a redating of flutes found in Geißenklösterle cave revealed them to be even older with an age of 42. 000 to 43. 000 years.

A three-holed flute, 18. 7 cm long, made from a mammoth tusk ( from the Geißenklösterle cave, near Ulm, in the southern German Swabian Alb and dated to 30, 000 to 37, 000 years ago ) was discovered in 2004, and two flutes made from swan bones excavated a decade earlier ( from the same cave in Germany, dated to circa 36, 000 years ago ) are among the oldest known musical instruments.

Georg, the oldest of six children, was regarded as an outstanding violinist, having inherited his parents ' considerable musical and artistic talents.

It is one of the oldest musical forms that continue to survive today.

India has one of the oldest musical traditions in the world — references to Indian classical music ( marga ) are found in the Vedas, ancient scriptures of the Hindu tradition.

The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world.

* 1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

The phonograph cylinder recordings of Handel's choral music made on June 29, 1888 at The Crystal Palace in London were thought to be the oldest known surviving musical recordings, until the recent playback by a group of American historians of a waveform of " Au Clair de la Lune ", recorded on a phonautograph on April 9, 1860.

During the last glacial period, present-day Slovenia was inhabited by Neanderthals ; the most famous Neanderthal archeological site in Slovenia is a cave close to the village of Šebrelje near Cerkno, where the Divje Babe flute, the oldest known musical instrument in the world was found in 1995.

One of the oldest records of the word samba appeared in Pernambuco magazine's O Carapuceiro, dated February 1838, when Father Miguel Lopes Gama of Sacramento wrote against what he called the samba d ' almocreve – not referring to the future musical genre, but a kind of merriment ( dance drama ) popular for black people of that time.

Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC.

* November 7 – The oldest musical organization in the United States ( the Stoughton Musical Society ) is founded.

The flute is perhaps the oldest musical instrument, other than the human voice itself.

The remains of a 2300 year old lyre was discovered on the Isle of Skye, Scotland in 2010 making it Europe ’ s oldest surviving stringed musical instrument.

The oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world, is the Seikilos epitaph.

It remains the oldest genre of extant music, of which the manner of performance and ( with increasing accuracy from the 5th century onwards ) the names of the composers, and sometimes the particulars of each musical work's circumstances, are known.

Indian music is one of the oldest musical traditions in the world.

At 46, he was the oldest person ever to join the Saturday Night Live cast, and the only person to be a musical guest, host, and cast member in that order.

This event, organized in 1884 and called The Big Singing or Big Singing Day, is considered by many to be the oldest indigenous musical tradition in the United States.

The Haworth Band is one of the oldest secular musical organisations in the Keighley area.

Although there has been an old tradition and like for making census in Spain, the oldest ones dating back to the 12th century ( by Alfonso VII of the Kingdom of Castile ), the first modern census was carried out in 1768 by Conde de Aranda, under the reign of Carlos III.

Apparently the oldest tradition of official marriages within the imperial dynasty were marriages between dynasty members, even half-siblings or uncle and niece.

The Western tradition of hymnody begins with the Homeric Hymns, a collection of ancient Greek hymns, the oldest of which were written in the 7th century BC, praising deities of the ancient Greek religions.

The shrine of Dodona was the oldest Hellenic oracle, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus and in fact, dates to pre-Hellenic times, perhaps as early as the second millennium BC when the tradition probably spread from Egypt.

* The Punch & Judy Fellowship: The largest and oldest organisation of its kind devoted to keeping alive the tradition of Punch & Judy shows.

Greece has a long tradition of anarchist squats, the oldest one being Villa Amalias and Lelas Karagianni from late 1980s.

The Greek poet Hesiod, around the 8th century BC, in his compilation of the mythological tradition ( the poem Works and Days ), explained that, prior to the present era, there were other four progressively more perfect ones, the oldest of which was the Golden Age.

Aboriginal art is believed to be the oldest continuing tradition of art in the world.

The Syrian tradition includes the oldest manuscripts ; these versions are also much shorter and include fewer tales.

Scandinavia has the oldest tradition in Europe of butter export trade, dating at least to the 12th century.

The earliest preserved examples of Old Norse literature are the Eddic poems, the oldest of which may have been composed in early 9th century Norway drawing on the common Germanic tradition of alliterative verse.

According to tradition it was created in 1283 by King Ramkhamhaeng the Great (). Replica of the Ramkhamhaeng inscription, the oldest inscription using proto-Thai script

Chinese art has arguably the oldest continuous tradition in the world, and is marked by an unusual degree of continuity within, and consciousness of, that tradition, lacking an equivalent to the Western collapse and gradual recovery of classical styles.

However, the oldest known landscape art scene tradition in the classical sense of painting is a work by Zhan Ziqian of the Sui Dynasty ( 581 – 618 ).

is by the oldest tradition said to be the work of Thoth himself.

* Mountain Day, Established: 1896 — Mountain Day is the oldest tradition at Juniata and occurs on an unannounced fall day.

The period spans the arrival of true classicism into the mainstream of British architecture, such that its progress can be traced in the marked differences between the oldest wing to the north, which still has vaulting and other features in the unbroken tradition of English Gothic, and the final southern block, which shows a fully articulated classic style.

The oldest tradition of its founding ascribes to Evander the erection of the Great Altar of Hercules in the Forum Boarium.

The origins of Indian classical music can be found from the oldest of scriptures, part of the Hindu tradition, the Vedas.

His major scholarly pursuits were works on the Pharisees, a Jewish sect in second Temple times from which modern Jewish tradition developed, and the Sifra, the oldest rabbinic commentary on the book of Leviticus, which was completed in Palestine in the fifth century.

This site is the oldest known Native American settlement in the state of Minnesota, containing Hopewell tradition culture burial grounds that are believed to date back more than 2, 000 years.