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Music Discussion => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: 2tec on 2020-11-06 11:23:40

Title: The Oldest Song in the World
Post by: 2tec on 2020-11-06 11:23:40
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For fifteen years Prof. Anne Draffkorn Kilmer puzzled over clay tablets relating to music including some excavated in Syria by French archaeologists in the early '50s. The tablets from the Syrian city of ancient Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra) were about 3400 years old, had markings called cuneiform signs in the hurrian language (with borrowed akkadian terms) that provided a form of musical notation. One of the texts formed a complete cult hymn and is the oldest preserved song with notation in the world. Finally in 1972, Kilmer, who is professor of Assyriology, University of California, and a curator at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley, developed an interpretation of the song based on her study of the notation.
~ https://youtu.be/Brvy4BbK2ZQ (https://youtu.be/Brvy4BbK2ZQ)
Title: Re: The Oldest Song in the World
Post by: NateHigs on 2020-11-06 20:35:06
This is wack.