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- Clockwise, from top left:
* Sculptures on the Jagdish Temple, Udaipur of musicians, one of which plays an instrument similar to the Rudra veena
* Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief listening to a recording by Frances Densmore in 1916
* Performers in the Samba de Roda festival, a music and dance celebration in the Bahia region of Brazil
* A man playing the gendèr outside of the Embassy of Indonesia, Canberra
* A man playing the didgeridoo, an indigenous instrument of Australia
* Joseph Haydn playing in a string quartet, in a painting from before 1790 (en)
- Top left, the purported Divje Babe Flute from Divje Babe, Slovenia; top right a Aurignacian bone flute from Geissenklösterle, Germany; bottom a gudi bone flute in the modern-day Jiahu, Wuyang, Henan Province. (en)
- The principal composers of the Classical period and the transition to Romanticism, collectively known as the First Viennese School. Clockwise, from top left: Joseph Haydn ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; and Franz Schubert . (en)
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- And perform flawlessly upon their flutes. (en)
- The mouth organ and chime stones sound together; (en)
- They play the se-zither, play the qin-zither, (en)
- They sing the Ya and Nan Odes, (en)
- They strike the bells, kin, kin, (en)
- "But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge." (en)
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