I'm working on a few larger posts, which hopefully I should have done in the next few days. In the meantime, enjoy this beautiful, beautiful music, reputedly the oldest known written melody, which was found on cuneiform in modern Syria, dating back to around 1400 BCE.
I love it. When we first listened to it, The Baronette pointed out that one of the best things about it is how much it shows that music, while always changing and always different, has in many ways always been the same. Or at least it has been for thirty-four centuries.
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the first 20 or so seconds play like a variation on "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"
wow, that was very cool; thanks for posting it.
That's fantastic.
Glad y'all liked it!
Jack, I never would have thought about that, but you're right.
Jack is right!
I really love the minor tones that dominate much pre-modern music (I love Arabic music, too, which has retained that tonality)
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