Audio historians have found a sound recording that predates Edison's phonograph by nearly 20 years. The "phonautograph" was patented in 1857 by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville; the device recorded ...

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An "ethereal" 10 second clip of a woman singing a French folk song has been played for the first time in 150 years. The recording of "Au Clair de la Lune", recorded in 1860, is thought to be the ...

In the early eighteen-fifties, while editing a physics textbook, a Parisian typesetter named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville came upon a passage that described the inner workings of the human ear.

Much of early American music is lost. However, the Digital Library of Appalachia, a collaboration between several member libraries, has an online repository of Appalachian music dating from the 1930s ...

*Google Translator tackles a French website. France was the Japan-Galapagos-Islands of the 19th century. The first record of votes in the world in 1860 "The song "Au clair de la lune" was recorded in ...