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Performing arts timeline
c. 2800 BC
The harp and the lyre are in use as musical instruments in Mesopotamia
c. 1500 BC
A copper trumpet is in use in Egypt, forerunner of the brass instruments of the orchestra
c. 600 BC
The
choros
, originally danced in a circle by temple virgins, is the centrepiece of the developing Greek theatre
c. 600 BC
Frenzied dances, in honour of the god Dionysus, become part of Greek theatre - deriving probably from the northeast, in Thrace
534 BC
Thespis, traditionally considered the first actor, wins the drama competition in Athens
c. 500 BC
The followers of Pythagoras discover the mathematical basis of the octave
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