http://www.themp3x.com Music history weblog Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:30:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While musical life in Europe was undoubtedly rich in the early Medieval era, as attested by artistic depictions of instruments, writings about music, and other records, the only European repertory which has survived from before about 800 is the monophonic liturgical plainsong of the Roman Catholic Church, the central tradition ... http://www.themp3x.com/30/21/12/ A range of paleolithic sites have yielded bones in which lateral holes have been pierced: these are usually identified as flutes[2], blown at one end like the Japanese shakuhachi. The earliest written records of musical expression are to be found in the Sama Veda of India and in 4,000 year ... http://www.themp3x.com/27/21/12/ The psycho-acoustic masking codec was first proposed, apparently independently in 1979, by Manfred Schroeder, et al.[1] in Germany and M. A.Krasner[2] in the United States. Krasner was the first to publish and to produce hardware, but the publication of his results as a relatively obscure Lincoln Laboratory Technical Report did ... http://www.themp3x.com/23/21/12/