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