The frequent repetition of the Kyrie was probably the original form of the Litany, and was in use in Asia and in Rome at a very early date. The Council of Vaison in 529 passed the decree: "Let that be ...
The origin of the term remains uncertain. The biblical word Ivri (Hebrew: ????), meaning to traverse or pass over, is usually rendered as Hebrew in English, from the ancient Greek ?βρα?ο? a ...
The earliest use of the term "Judeo-Christian" in the historical sense dates to 1829 in the missionary journal of Joseph Wolff, and before that as "Judeo Christian" in a letter from Alexander M'Caul d ...
A Semite is a member of any of various ancient and modern Semitic-speaking peoples, mostly originating in the Near East, including; Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians), Ammonites, Amorites, Arameans ...
Egypt was among the oldest cultures of the Near East and had a highly developed musical culture dating back to around 3000 BC. Egyptian sources, however, include only pictorial relics, some instrument ...
The history of musical development in Iran dates back to the prehistoric era. King Jamshid, is credited with the "invention" of music. Fragmentary documents from various periods of the country's hist ...
According to legends, the founder of music in Chinese mythology was Ling Lun at the time of the Yellow Emperor, who made bamboo pipes tuned to the sounds of birds including the phoenix. A twelve-tone ...
Southeast Asian music include the musical traditions of this subregion of Asia. This subregion consists of eleven countries, namely, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, P ...
Use of the bowed string is thought to originate with nomads who mainly used the snake-skin, covered horsetail-bowed lute. In Mongolia instruments like the Morin khuur or horse-head fiddle survive toda ...
Asian music encompasses numerous different musical styles originating from a large number of Asian countries.Musical traditions in AsiaA Mongolian musicianA Lady Playing the Tanpura; RajasthanA musica ...
Pre-Islamic Arab music was similar to that of Ancient Middle Eastern music. Most historians agree that there existed distinct forms of music in the Arabian peninsula in the pre-Islamic period between ...
Ilango Adigal was a Jain prince of the 2nd century AD/CE, who is thought to be the author of Silappathikaram, one of the five great epics of Tamil literature. His name is a pseudonym meaning 'Venerabl ...
At the end of the Sangam epoch (second – third centuries CE), the Tamil country was in political confusion. The older order of the three Tamil dynasties was replaced by the invasion of the Kalabhras. ...
Each repeated cycle of a tala is called an avartan. This is counted additively in sections (vibhag or anga) which roughly correspond to bars or measures but may not have the same number of beats (matr ...
The Sanskrit word rāga is defined as 'the act of colouring or dyeing' (the mind and mood/emotions in this context) and therefore metaphorically means 'any feeling or passion especially love, affectio ...
