Myths always played an important role in human societies. ... Music could play a similar role, communicating situations and emotions by sounds and harmony. ... Spectators were seated on a hillside to view these early "plays". ... The choral odes, accompanied by dancing and music, were part of the entertainment itself. ... The earliest surviving texts of plays are seven tragedies by Aeschylus dating from the first half of the 5th century BC. ...

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