Wednesday, January 8, 2014

The Oldest Known Music (video)

A great deal of work went into deciphering the one stone tablet that was in good enough condition to permit translation.  The tablet is almost thirty five hundred years old and was discovered in Syria in 1950.  Apparently it took about sixty years to decipher it.

The comments with the video are interesting as this is where you will discover the text on the tablet revealed the names of the strings on the lyre, an ancient instrument something like a guitar, and, more importantly, it documented the intervals between the notes.  The knowledge of the intervals is what gives confidence that the reproduction really is something like what the original composer intended and that's what makes this so fascinating to me.  Here's some legitimate time travel.

Herewith, the music:


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