The only singer using authentic/original folk instruments and singing authentic unadulterated Nepali Folk songs. Evolutionary musicology concerns the “origins of music, the question of animal song, selection pressures underlying music evolution”, and “music evolution and human evolution”. It seeks to understand music perception and activity in the context of evolutionary theory. Charles Darwin speculated that music may have held an adaptive advantage and functioned as a protolanguage, a view which has spawned several competing theories of music evolution. An alternate view sees music as a by-product of linguistic evolution; a type of “auditory cheesecake” that pleases the senses without providing any adaptive function. This interdisciplinary field investigates topics such as the parallels between language and music in the brain.

• Join Guildhall singers and Alisdair Hogarth for a performance of songs by Stephen Hough, including Lady Antonia’s Songs, Dappled Things, Other Love Songs and Herbstlieder.
• Indian classical music is monophonic, and

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The earliest material and representational evidence of Egyptian musical instruments dates to the Predynastic period, but the evidence is more securely attested in the Old Kingdom when harps, flutes and double clarinets were played. Percussion instruments, lyres and lutes were added to orchestras by the Middle Kingdom. Cymbals frequently accompanied music and dance, much as they still do in Egypt today. Egyptian folk music, including the traditional Sufi dhikr rituals, are the closest contemporary music genre to ancient Egyptian music, having preserved many of its features, rhythms and instruments.

• To be considered for a place at Guildhall, you’ll be asked to take part in a performance audition.
• The sociological study of music, sometimes called sociomusicology, is often pursued in departments of sociology, media studies, or music, and is closely related to the field of ethnomusicology.
• Evolutionary musicology concerns the “origins of music, the question of animal song, selection pressures underlying

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