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In the early 1630s, a Roman composer by the name of Gregorio Allegri wrote a song that was never to be sung outside the Sistine Chapel. That was until 1770, when a 14-year-old boy transcribed it from memory after hearing it twice. So impressed, the Pope did not prevent its publication. That boy was W.A. Mozart.

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Amazing. Didn't know that! Musical memory is something that makes me think of how story was also carried through generations without written history. So interesting.

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Indeed. Oral tradition is especially impressive when used to coordinate large projects over centuries. The neolithic farmers that built Stonehenge, for instance, managed to do so without a writing system over the course of ~1500 years.