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Europe starts to populate the Americas 1492

Machines>>>


CLICK >>>HERO OF ALEXANDRIA


CLICK>>>The Printing Press and a Changing World


CLICK>>> movable clay type was first Johannes Gutenberg


CLICK >>>1700's American printers were able to import excellent font sets from the Caslon foundry in London. Brietkopf in Germany


The Civil War, 1861-1865


Potato Famine, from 1845 to 1947 CLICK irish_pf.html CLICK>>Irish_potato_famine CLICK>> www.historyplace.com

Full Swing Industrial Age

The Real Casey Jones Story

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CLICK >>>Pythagoras (c. 580 B.C. –500 B.C.) who recognized the first real scale


CLICK >>>About Pythagorean Scales By Douglas Wolfe


CLICK >>>ARISTOXENUS OF TARENTUM (born 375-360 B.C.)


CLICK >>>First trace of music theory seems to come from China around 300 BC Kalle Kockum, Sweden

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Ptolemaios (100 AD),

Aristides Quitilianus (200 AD),

Alypios (300AD),

Boetius ("De institutione musica" 500 AD. He assigned letters to the notes)


CLICK >>>Boethius (c.A.D. 470–A.D. 525)

Alcuin, Amalarius from Metz, Aurelianus Reomensis Hucbald (900 AD),

Guido from Arezzo ("Micrologus" 1000 AD, came up with the lines)

Berno, Hermannus Contractus, Aribo Scholasticus, Johannes Affligemensis, Johannes de Garlandia (1200 AD


CLICK >>>de Vitry,Phillipe (1291-1361)

de Machaut, Guillaume (13de Machaut, Guillaume (1300-1377)00-1377)


CLICK >>>Dufay,Guillaume (1400-1474)

Orlando di Lassus(1532-1594)

J. Playford ("Introduction to the skill of music", 1654-1730).


CLICK >>>Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.)

Hieronymus de Moravia ("Tractatus de Musica"), Franco from Cologne, Al Farabi, Coussemaker, Gerbert, Rameau ("Traite", 1722),

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Bill Monroe
Earl Scruggs
Lester flat

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CLICK >>>musical notation, symbols

Tablature>>

First known existence is from around c. 1300. Etymology
Tablature is originated from the latin word tablatura (table or blackboard). To tabulate (tabulating) means putting something into a table or chart.


Jay Buckey's web site CLICK>>>A Brief History of Tablature Here are two examples of 16 century lute tabs. Click here: Lute tab 1 Click here: Lute tab2

1960 great tab Banjo book br Pete Segar

1964 Great Banjo book by Earl Scruggs

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