Our physical universe thus has an intrinsic musical quality to it. At an atomic level, everything is dancing and making it's own “music,” vibrating at different sonic frequencies.
An example of such may occur within black holes. Some of those various sounds being emitted from different elements and parts of the universe could even be described as music.
As of 2003, instruments that have been aboard the International Space Station include a flute, a keyboard, a guitar, a saxophone, and a didgeridoo. Music in space has been a focal point of public relation events of various human spaceflight programs.
A more commonly known example of how closely animal music reflects human music is within the songs of birds. Birds use the same rhythmic variations and effects, intervals, and combinations of notes that humans do (Hartshorne, 1973).
Musical sensibility is tied to our social instincts. Darwin noted as early as 1859 that social instincts, including song, are the prelude for much of what governs our social evolution (Darwin, 1859/1958).
Making music is a universal human trait that goes back to at least 35,000 years ago. Explore the evidence for some of the world's earliest musical instruments.
The space agency used instruments on several probes (like Voyager and HAWKEYE) to record these waves. Then they put them together into a recording of a sound for all of us to hear. The result is a sound that is (frighteningly) akin to what you would expect to hear echoing as you sink into a black abyss.
"Au Clair De La Lune" Is First Recorded Song - April 9, 1860.
“Hurrian Hymn No. 6” is considered the world's earliest melody, but the oldest musical composition to have survived in its entirety is a first century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.” The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman's gravesite in Turkey.
In a space ship, you could of course hear the other passengers because your ship is filled with air. Additionally, a living human will always be able to hear himself talk, breath, and circulate blood, because the air in his space suit which sustains his life also transmits sound.
but the loudest sound in the universe. is actually from the merger or collision. of 2 black holes. in what you're about to hear, scientists converted the gravitational waves. of 2 black holes, both 30 times the size of the sun, and converted them into sound waves.
A constant, low hum associated with the bright core can be heard, punctuated by short sounds from compact sources of light within the galaxy. For more information on this sonification, visit the Chandra Observatory's sonification page.
Music has the ability to bring us joy and comfort, to motivate us and to help us relax. It has the power to transport us back in time, to calm our worried minds or boost our moods. There really is a song for every emotion.
The story is largely historically inaccurate.
"The Sound of Music" centers on the von Trapps, a real Austrian family. The Broadway musical — which later inspired the 1965 film — was based on the memoir "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria von Trapp (née Kutschera).
No historical evidence exists to tell us exactly who sang the first song, or whistled the first tune, or made the first rhythmic sounds that resembled what we know today as music. But researchers do know it happened thousands of years ago. The earliest civilizations throughout Africa, Europe and Asia had music.
Believe it or not, the oldest song on Spotify is actually the oldest song in the world. Titled "The Hymn Of Ugarit," the track is a modern recording by Al-Pha-X of what is the oldest known piece of music ever discovered. The song dates back to 14th century B.C.E. and was discovered on a clay tablet in the 1950s.
Hurrian Hymn No.
The tablets were written in cuneiform and contain the earliest known written musical notations. A majority of the tablets are broken, but Hurrian hymn No. 6, also called Hurrian hymn to Nikkal, is nearly complete, making it the oldest existing melody in the world.
This is because sound travels through the vibration of particles, and space is a vacuum. On Earth, sound mainly travels to your ears by way of vibrating air molecules, but in near-empty regions of space there are no (or very, very few) particles to vibrate – so no sound.
As NASA explained it back then, "Astronomers discovered that pressure waves sent out by the black hole caused ripples in the cluster's hot gas that could be translated into a note — one that humans cannot hear some 57 octaves below middle C." To us, it just sounds like a beginning of a very sinister dubstep track.
Singing, the vocal production of musical tones, is so basic to man its origins are long lost in antiquity and predate the development of spoken language. The voice is presumed to be the original musical instrument, and there is no human culture, no matter how remote or isolated, that does not sing.
An animal psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently discovered that animals actually enjoy, what he defines as, 'species-specific music'. This refers to music that is specially designed using pitches, tones and tempos that are familiar to a particular animal's species.
The Greek myth of the Titan Prometheus pictures him as the creator of mankind, sculpting figures of clay and giving those lifeless things attributes of the living. Athena then provides them with reason and so they live. In the Bible we find a similar motif.