quite fascinating... being a guitar major this fascinates me. Hearing all the old style notes being played is pretty cool. Although they are modern notes hearing them being played from so long ago its almost unrealistic to think that something so advanced could come from so long ago.
The Cuneiform text to which you are referring is the first known writing system and it was created by the people of Sumer who are the first known civilization. They also created the first judicial system, laws, formal education, and we still have yet to catch up to their degree of understanding and knowledge of astronomy.
@TheJb1rd 9,000 years ago is a blink of an eye in relation to the actual scale of the universe. By then the last ice age had been over for 1,000 years and people were farming
@skeetereze no problem sir. since you're here you might find this interesting. do research on "dead instruments" instruments that existed but people no longer know or care how to properly play them. like the "bipa" it some kind of korean lute, i think related to the pipa.... anywho, it's interesting stuff. I'm a musician, not by profession, and am off work due to an injury... so my days have been thinking about this stuff non stop.
@a2r1v1i2s That is interesting. I like music anyway, but am very much into medieval music, but I can't claim that I know a whole lot about it, I just like to listen to it. Ancient music and the instruments they used are fascinating, I agree.
This is hauntingly beautiful. I will have to buy this when I have disposable income again. :3 Xmas shopping is already taking sizable chunks out of what I have.
I don't knwo why but this song always brings tears to my eyes. Maybe it's because this song makes my mind travel back in time for 3400 years and I hear exacly what those people back then heard. Pure nostalgia.
@Teduis489 There has been music for as long as modern humans have been around, but unless the music is actually notated, and can be deciphered from that notation, the music is lost - the oldest piece of notated music so far discovered, is therefore the oldest piece of music ever found :P
@Teduis489 but we have earlier pieces which aren't fully notated. The Epitaph of Seikilos from Ancient Egypt is the earliest piece of music we know of.
@Teduis489 But if it's not fully notated, it can't be played by us moderns as the ancients heard it. This is the oldest song that we can actually play as it was originally heard, ages ago.
Do you have a piece of music that expresses, "Praise the Lord with harp and lyre?" from Psalm 150? We are having a tent revival on October 22, 2011 and Psalm 150 is being performed as a song with the instruments mentioned there.
@you042355 Check out John Wheeler's Youtube channel, "teamim" - you can hear Suzanne Haik Vantoura's reconstruction of the original 3000 year old melody to Psalm 150!
But I have one question - how accurate is this interpretation to the/an original?? I am speaking about the melodies alone, not their arrangement and relative positions??
We'll never now how they really sounded but it's a worthwhile effort to study and interpret such a resource. Makes you realize that most if modern music, since about 1930's is crappola.
Sound entirely different than the other interpretations up here. Still, this one also has something overearthly about it. Of course, it's not like modern-day church-music, but you feel like you're supposed to be silent and close your eyes. I can imagine this playing in some temple while some guy is lighthing incence. It's a tad like a kid playing with an instrument, and yet surprisingly dynamic.
so beautiful and i love the end part too becouse all the time i was thinking "hmm so over 3000 years ago people played slow and kinda simple way" but then it changed and sounded much more modern day guitar playing :D anyway this was great time machine for a history freak like myself, thank you! :)
@FvantomX how would they go mainstream in 1412 BC when they're older stuff was better when this was written in 1400BC. you are going back in the timeline..im not trying to be mean, just pointing that out.
music composed in 1400 BC cannot be the oldest, because the Saamawedas of India dating to at least a millennium older than 1400BC contain about 1075 hymns set to music with the rules for singing them described in detail. so knowledge of music was there with humans atleast a couple thousand years prior to that and many countries in the east show signs of fully developed musical systems in practice during ancient times.
@saurabhusbondre This is not the oldest music - it is the oldest written music (so far!) discovered, which can be interpreted & reconstructed (although there are several academic reconstructions of the Hurrian Hymn, each of them completely different)
wow, you can't even listen to ancient music without seeing justin bieber comments. seriously guys, just hop off justin's nuts for a while, even he doesn't deserve this. if you really don't like him why the hell do you talk about him all the time. get a life people.
I read your comment about the interpretation of the musical intervals by Professor Dumbrill. Was there a similar interpretation regarding the lengths & timings of the notes?
@MusicalAlaska You should know that in the case of ancient music the copyrights belong to the author of the translation/transilteration/interpretation. It would be wiser to enquire before making silly accusations.
I'm surprised it sounds so much like modern music. I guess I don't know what I was expecting--something less complex? Something more complex? It's got multiple instruments, which I wasn't expecting, but it just sounds like what happens when I sit with a guitar and play around. And I don't play guitar, really.
I don't like it. :(
I really wanted to, too. Such early stuff; I feel like it should have been more, well, interesting from a musical standpoint, not just a historical one.
@TubeTripping they had to go all mainstream crap with THIS? At least bring back some of the old stuff man, i liked them when they were more underground
This is fascinating, but I wish we knew something about the musical phrasing and tempo. I doubt it's the same as it is in the video, just because there's no way of knowing.
@Cometsamba This piece was transcribed form the original Cuneiform text by Prof. Richard Dumbrill. The ancient text indicates the names of specific lyre strings, and Prof Dumbrill interpreted the musical intervals also notated in the 3400 year old Cuneiform text! All details in his book, "The Archeomusicology of the Ancient Near East".
I can show a direct lineage to the owner of this piece of intellectual property. Therefore I am the rightful owner under ancient Hurrian Copyright law.
@Cometsamba This piece was transcribed form the original Cuneiform text by Prof. Richard Dumbrill. The ancient text indicates the names of specific lyre strings, and Prof Dumbrill interpreted the musical intervals also notated in the 3400 year old Cuneiform text! All details in his book, "The Archeomusicology of the Ancient Near East". I actually stumbled upon a modern musical notation arrangement of the melody on a website for Native American Flute, run by Clint Goss...
@richarddumbrill My sincere apologies - I have included full details now in the video description of all my videos which feature my arrangement of this melody, as well as a purchase link to your book "The Archeomusicology of the Near East". I recently discovered your incredible videos on your reconstruction of the Silver Lyre of Ur - once of the most amazing finds on Youtube!
@BakuraSR45 Before insulting people, you should know that in copyright law, the translator of ancient texts are the owners of the translation of the texts. I did not write these laws, but your constitution did, so perhaps you should tell them they are 'dumfucks' as you imaginatively put it, rather than telling me that I am a 'dumbfuck'. Perhaps you should try doing a better translation than mine, then we could speak on equal terms.
@richarddumbrill Ok really? You are fighting with a 12 yr old girl on Youtube about music. Why do you have to get all mad at people when they haven't memorized an important part of YOUR job? And if I bothered making a better translation than yours, you would write that YOU owned it on the video. For example, on Freeevian's remix video, you told him you wrote the song, even though his remix sounded NOTHING like your version
@Corporatist when i said i couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic, i was being sarcastic. i meant that his comeback was so lame i couldn't tell if it was even a comeback. when i said he had to be born in 1400, i meant he had to be born in 1400 BC to physically right it. he was the one who translated it, but he says he WROTE IT. what i mean is if you ask some one who read his comment who wrote this song, they will say "Richard Dumbrill" NOT "Assyrians" (or whoever) Think before you type, dumbass
quite fascinating... being a guitar major this fascinates me. Hearing all the old style notes being played is pretty cool. Although they are modern notes hearing them being played from so long ago its almost unrealistic to think that something so advanced could come from so long ago.
XxMoonLightFightxX 1 week ago
It sounds like the composer just threw random notes together...
blackwingangel04 4 weeks ago
@blackwingangel04 No, no not at all. There is a pattern, hahaha why don't you don't you try to listen?
bartje11 3 weeks ago
@bartje11 Why don't you go to hell?
blackwingangel04 3 weeks ago
@blackwingangel04 Why would I go there, you are there.
bartje11 3 weeks ago
The Cuneiform text to which you are referring is the first known writing system and it was created by the people of Sumer who are the first known civilization. They also created the first judicial system, laws, formal education, and we still have yet to catch up to their degree of understanding and knowledge of astronomy.
IDV82atl 1 month ago
This is from before even Ramses
cbohar84 1 month ago
really cool.
5ilent5am 1 month ago
I think this is pure BS
MisterIanPickering 1 month ago
WarM DeeP ThankS for WhaT YOU DO PreciouS SOUL ;-)
GreaT GIFT for US ALL !
flyingnymphea88 1 month ago
"If its really that old, how did they record it?".....I love my Girlfriend
kalashnic 1 month ago
@kalashnic man that not the original music being played. someone is playing from the notes they found along time ago.
adamrocks2006 1 month ago
that ancient jester is jamming this shit up...
Norocmorth 1 month ago
over 9000 years ago..
Norocmorth 1 month ago
@Norocmorth that took me too long to realize what that meant.
"9000 years?.. the fuck?"
TheJb1rd 1 month ago
@TheJb1rd 9,000 years ago is a blink of an eye in relation to the actual scale of the universe. By then the last ice age had been over for 1,000 years and people were farming
IDV82atl 1 month ago
@IDV82atl ok
TheJb1rd 1 month ago
Sounds like London Bridges falling down anyone?
bebopdad 1 month ago
@bebopdad london bridge bery bery old
arkaan79 1 month ago
This is amazing! Thank you for posting it.
iszoj 1 month ago
Boy, music did not get off to a particularly great start, did it? This --> Justin Bieber might actually count as progress...
ChristianTarsney 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
0:25 theres a blue car in front of the pyramid
Evil6299 2 months ago
Soon to be sampled by Lil Wayne...
CoachG1000 2 months ago
5:42... For sure that was not a pop song.
sideburnstijger 2 months ago
yeah, it's a lyre. lol. I learned my lesson. WATCH THE FULL VIDEO BEFORE MAKING COMMENTS.
a2r1v1i2s 2 months ago
What is the instrument used?
skeetereze 2 months ago
@skeetereze a lyre... an ooooolllllldddddd ass instrument. at least I think thats what it is?
a2r1v1i2s 2 months ago
@a2r1v1i2s Thank you!
skeetereze 2 months ago
@skeetereze no problem sir. since you're here you might find this interesting. do research on "dead instruments" instruments that existed but people no longer know or care how to properly play them. like the "bipa" it some kind of korean lute, i think related to the pipa.... anywho, it's interesting stuff. I'm a musician, not by profession, and am off work due to an injury... so my days have been thinking about this stuff non stop.
a2r1v1i2s 2 months ago
@a2r1v1i2s That is interesting. I like music anyway, but am very much into medieval music, but I can't claim that I know a whole lot about it, I just like to listen to it. Ancient music and the instruments they used are fascinating, I agree.
skeetereze 2 months ago
give me 2pac and ice cube.
onder1188 2 months ago
@onder1188 Eat a dick. What a useless comment you made.
CerebralEntrophy 2 months ago
Words like "epic" and "thrilling" can describe this melody, along with the fact that it was being played millenia ago...
124Brainiac 2 months ago
amazing
aaaaasssss22 2 months ago
Amazing.. Thank You
612gideon 3 months ago
I love this, it's amazing, I listen to this whenever I have to study for a test :)
MrsxNightwish 3 months ago
This is hauntingly beautiful. I will have to buy this when I have disposable income again. :3 Xmas shopping is already taking sizable chunks out of what I have.
Ongarukat 3 months ago
Way better than most music today.
DrWatsonPostmortem 3 months ago
already better than allot of the crap now days.
bassbass99able 3 months ago 2
It's an honor to hear you and to read the various forms of research in all the songs you preform. Bless you and Thank You for Being.
skytheinfinite 3 months ago 12
@skytheinfinite Glad you appreciate my "Musical Adventures in Time Travel"!
Klezfiddle1 3 months ago 4
Incredibil
95m26 3 months ago in playlist Mai multe videoclipuri de la Klezfiddle1
I don't knwo why but this song always brings tears to my eyes. Maybe it's because this song makes my mind travel back in time for 3400 years and I hear exacly what those people back then heard. Pure nostalgia.
Fapsamup 3 months ago
This is the oldest piece of NOTATED music we have. NOT the oldest piece of music ever found. :P
Teduis489 3 months ago 4
@Teduis489 There has been music for as long as modern humans have been around, but unless the music is actually notated, and can be deciphered from that notation, the music is lost - the oldest piece of notated music so far discovered, is therefore the oldest piece of music ever found :P
Klezfiddle1 3 months ago 16
@Klezfiddle1 (ape jumps up and down hysterically) oOoOoOoOoOWnED oOoOoOOWNED!
hideHYDEimcoming 2 months ago
@Teduis489 but we have earlier pieces which aren't fully notated. The Epitaph of Seikilos from Ancient Egypt is the earliest piece of music we know of.
Teduis489 3 months ago
@Teduis489 But if it's not fully notated, it can't be played by us moderns as the ancients heard it. This is the oldest song that we can actually play as it was originally heard, ages ago.
Ongarukat 3 months ago
@Teduis489 i believe the epitaph of seikilos is from ancient greece
rocoreb 3 months ago
@Teduis489
OK here you go: OOGA OOGA BOOGA
234234234werrrrrrr 1 month ago
so this is what my grandpa headbanged to... :P
tygerlily013 3 months ago
7 people wrote songs earlier than this.
GameMusicCompilation 3 months ago
Someone should sample this and make a rap beat.
adam8871 3 months ago
Has anyone remixed this yet?
lllexoduslll 3 months ago
thrash ending. Hetfield style downstrokes. Love it :-)
MultiDean75 4 months ago
They made music before it was cool, the ancient egypts are such hipsters.
ThefamousZozo 4 months ago 2
Wow, it really started rocking out at the end. Too bad it cut off. =(
TrustworthyAndroid 4 months ago
Do you have a piece of music that expresses, "Praise the Lord with harp and lyre?" from Psalm 150? We are having a tent revival on October 22, 2011 and Psalm 150 is being performed as a song with the instruments mentioned there.
you042355 4 months ago
@you042355 Check out John Wheeler's Youtube channel, "teamim" - you can hear Suzanne Haik Vantoura's reconstruction of the original 3000 year old melody to Psalm 150!
Klezfiddle1 4 months ago
Wow this is beautiful, and most enjoyed it ((^_^))
zanaelf 4 months ago
Amazing work.
But I have one question - how accurate is this interpretation to the/an original?? I am speaking about the melodies alone, not their arrangement and relative positions??
Swinje 4 months ago
@Swinje this was obviously recorded and put into a time capsule
rocker3277 4 months ago
Now, the oldest known written song is roughly 2,000yrs BC.
wado1942 4 months ago
Very nice - Thank You!
funkmanchu 4 months ago
I didn't know they had Sound Recorders in 1400 BC
:- )
Craigg639 4 months ago 2
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Craigg639 4 months ago
its pretty
Cardan011 4 months ago
Anyone else thinks this actually sounds pretty good? Like it's a nice melody.
pimas11 4 months ago 3
Lady gaga telephone?
unknownorigin84 5 months ago
It is much better than Lady gaga!!!!
mreinstein48 5 months ago 4
@mreinstein48 but seriously, I was gonna say "and where does Lady Gaga fit into the picture here?"
Mrgalacticone 5 months ago
@Mrgalacticone LOL !!!!!!!!
mreinstein48 5 months ago
I wonder what the ancient hipsters thought of this?
PanicPagoda 5 months ago
I was reminded for a moment of 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen'.
RedSoxForObama 5 months ago
We'll never now how they really sounded but it's a worthwhile effort to study and interpret such a resource. Makes you realize that most if modern music, since about 1930's is crappola.
Mazurka1001 5 months ago 4
Sound entirely different than the other interpretations up here. Still, this one also has something overearthly about it. Of course, it's not like modern-day church-music, but you feel like you're supposed to be silent and close your eyes. I can imagine this playing in some temple while some guy is lighthing incence. It's a tad like a kid playing with an instrument, and yet surprisingly dynamic.
KendrixTermina 6 months ago
so beautiful and i love the end part too becouse all the time i was thinking "hmm so over 3000 years ago people played slow and kinda simple way" but then it changed and sounded much more modern day guitar playing :D anyway this was great time machine for a history freak like myself, thank you! :)
HistorySammy 6 months ago
enchanting!
17secret 6 months ago
these dudes sold out after hymn no. 6
SclafaniBagni 6 months ago 2
their old stuff was way better -__- they went mainstream in 1412 BC
FvantomX 6 months ago 2
@FvantomX how would they go mainstream in 1412 BC when they're older stuff was better when this was written in 1400BC. you are going back in the timeline..im not trying to be mean, just pointing that out.
Kiryu394 6 months ago
@Kiryu394 its a mindfuck -__- but wouldnt 1412 bc come before 1400 bc?
FvantomX 6 months ago
@FvantomX yes it did. my apologies for mixing this up.
Kiryu394 6 months ago
reminds me of god rest ye merry gentlemen
TheHeathercoyle 6 months ago
Sometimes it sounds a little like Lady D'arbanville by Cat Stevens, isn't it ?
JBoscq 7 months ago
I think composer made a pretty girlfriend that time with this music ...
deneme2011 7 months ago
music composed in 1400 BC cannot be the oldest, because the Saamawedas of India dating to at least a millennium older than 1400BC contain about 1075 hymns set to music with the rules for singing them described in detail. so knowledge of music was there with humans atleast a couple thousand years prior to that and many countries in the east show signs of fully developed musical systems in practice during ancient times.
saurabhusbondre 7 months ago 2
@saurabhusbondre This is not the oldest music - it is the oldest written music (so far!) discovered, which can be interpreted & reconstructed (although there are several academic reconstructions of the Hurrian Hymn, each of them completely different)
Klezfiddle1 7 months ago 15
I would describe it as boring. It seems the composer of the song didn't bother to come up with maybe another riff or two.
PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII 7 months ago
@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII At the very least a kick ass drum solo in the middle. And he better have played his lyre behind his head during live shows.
sw0rd0fadvers1ty 7 months ago
@sw0rd0fadvers1ty Are you kidding? He played it with his teeth, then broke it, then set it on fire. It was his standard live performance.
PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII 7 months ago
@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII Now that's what I'm talking about!!
sw0rd0fadvers1ty 7 months ago
wow, you can't even listen to ancient music without seeing justin bieber comments. seriously guys, just hop off justin's nuts for a while, even he doesn't deserve this. if you really don't like him why the hell do you talk about him all the time. get a life people.
crazyjames95 7 months ago 4
very interesting stuff, thanks for sharing this!
karlalana 8 months ago
flowing like a g
nickiz1 8 months ago
@MusicalAlaska You're not known for your sense of humor, are you?
CatapultYourMom 8 months ago
I read your comment about the interpretation of the musical intervals by Professor Dumbrill. Was there a similar interpretation regarding the lengths & timings of the notes?
nickfloodban 9 months ago 2
Better then justin bieber ! Even ancient guys know better music than that little piece of shit !
PolskiLiberalizm 9 months ago 3
1400 BC heavy metal
TheThsmdx 9 months ago 27
Brutal.
GheoBlackPlum 9 months ago 2
are there mistakes in this?
5secLAUNCH 9 months ago
This is very relaxing!
itzdannii 9 months ago
thumps up for the interesting video discription!
manupee 10 months ago
Awesome. I love youtube.
mellowmark1 10 months ago 3
@MusicalAlaska You should know that in the case of ancient music the copyrights belong to the author of the translation/transilteration/interpretation. It would be wiser to enquire before making silly accusations.
richarddumbrill 10 months ago
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rocktr36 10 months ago
this is frickin' awesome, dead sure......
Bummelz 10 months ago
meh, i had this on vinyl years ago...
vetal17 11 months ago
Still beats Justin Bieber at a longshot.
whopper1209 11 months ago
Soo cooool
ExesAndOwes 1 year ago
5:33 it sounds like he's about to lead into "Pinball Wizard"...
knzarysk 1 year ago
5:33 it sounds like he's about to lead into "Pinball Wizard"...
knzarysk 1 year ago
Free Bird!!!!
SupernautG 1 year ago
@dude999998 - LMFAO
AngryIncFilms 1 year ago
Boy, talk about a blast from the past! Thank you for this golden oldie, Klezfiddle1.
ArkansasAnnie 1 year ago
I like their older stuff better.
dude999998 1 year ago 6
Look at the lyre player at 3:00 with the belly rolls of fat. Ha! Been hitting the lentils and date palms a little too much.
NealTeresa 1 year ago
If this is true big respect !!!!
insanelook 1 year ago
I'm surprised it sounds so much like modern music. I guess I don't know what I was expecting--something less complex? Something more complex? It's got multiple instruments, which I wasn't expecting, but it just sounds like what happens when I sit with a guitar and play around. And I don't play guitar, really.
I don't like it. :(
I really wanted to, too. Such early stuff; I feel like it should have been more, well, interesting from a musical standpoint, not just a historical one.
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lachelleflockfxc 1 year ago
Sounds a bit street fighter II.
TheMrGobble 1 year ago
When is the RIAA going to contact the original owner to see if they can sue you for copyright infringement?
;)
*dies of laughter*
akmarksman 1 year ago 6
Can't wait to hear this on Rock Band.
enoonerehwon 1 year ago 2
it really sounds like "God rest ye merry gentlemen" or rather, that sounds like this, I should say
whomee2 1 year ago
so when's Youtube gonna take this offline because of some ancient Syrian copyright?
Sevenne 1 year ago 7
So Khamitic.
juicearibe 1 year ago
@juicearibe Kemetic
MetallicThor 1 year ago
sounds awesome...
DosKanonos1994 1 year ago
Way too mainstream for me. Syria did their best work in in 1500 BC. I have all their work on vinyl tablets.
TubeTripping 1 year ago 192
@TubeTripping hahahahahahahah
Greeb17 1 year ago
@TubeTripping Ha ha. That's clever, bro.
RoosterCogburnPhD 1 year ago
@TubeTripping Wow this smells of Reddit nerddom
BadMuffler 1 year ago
@BadMuffler Not a chance, Reddit is like the most mainstream thing around.
TubeTripping 1 year ago
@TubeTripping you fuckin hipster.
BadMuffler 1 year ago
@BadMuffler I'm not really into "labels".
TubeTripping 1 year ago
@TubeTripping exactly.
BadMuffler 1 year ago
@TubeTripping they had to go all mainstream crap with THIS? At least bring back some of the old stuff man, i liked them when they were more underground
darkshippuu 1 year ago
@TubeTripping LOL...awesome comment
jjobie 1 year ago
@TubeTripping lol! that made my day
CoreysOldLady 11 months ago
@TubeTripping
HAHAHA
mishtram 11 months ago
@TubeTripping ur funny lol
dinaatjuh 4 months ago
@TubeTripping seriously bro funniest thing i've ever read!
MrKennyariel 4 months ago 3
This is fascinating, but I wish we knew something about the musical phrasing and tempo. I doubt it's the same as it is in the video, just because there's no way of knowing.
unclefeezus 1 year ago
Actually, Copyright only runs out 75 years after the author's death. What if it was written by ancient immortal god kings?
jazmcdougall 1 year ago
Omg, the ending is SO epic!
neveh00 1 year ago
COPYRIGHT ON A 3400 YEAR OLD SONG? Oh you.
ciddler 1 year ago 3
You can't get more obscure than this, hipsters.
chemassy 1 year ago 2
HOW DID THEY RECORD THIS 3,400 YEARS AGO???
TheBusDriver420 1 year ago 7
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@Cometsamba This piece was transcribed form the original Cuneiform text by Prof. Richard Dumbrill. The ancient text indicates the names of specific lyre strings, and Prof Dumbrill interpreted the musical intervals also notated in the 3400 year old Cuneiform text! All details in his book, "The Archeomusicology of the Ancient Near East".
Klezfiddle1 1 week ago
EdsEnemy 1 year ago
A beautiful tune.
DominationSupreme 1 year ago
This song sucks. Fuck Sumeria.
Ribavirin9 1 year ago
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djraz22 1 year ago
is this song on itunes? did they have itunes back when they wrote it?
nnytom 1 year ago 2
that was soooooo 3410 years ago...
benhuge 1 year ago 4
i liked this music before the band sold out...now im more interested in the ancient melodies of canada
zabdullaht 1 year ago 13
I can show a direct lineage to the owner of this piece of intellectual property. Therefore I am the rightful owner under ancient Hurrian Copyright law.
jeremybub2 1 year ago
Quick, copy this video before the Ancient Syrian lawyers find it!
Gamiac 1 year ago
Ohhhhh-ohhhh, bitter dregs.
mrcydonia 1 year ago
How did you derive the tuning?
Cometsamba 1 year ago
@Cometsamba This piece was transcribed form the original Cuneiform text by Prof. Richard Dumbrill. The ancient text indicates the names of specific lyre strings, and Prof Dumbrill interpreted the musical intervals also notated in the 3400 year old Cuneiform text! All details in his book, "The Archeomusicology of the Ancient Near East". I actually stumbled upon a modern musical notation arrangement of the melody on a website for Native American Flute, run by Clint Goss...
Klezfiddle1 1 year ago 12
Has anyone made a techno remix yet?
connorpadraig 1 year ago 23
@connorpadraig Check out my video along a similar surreal Iron Age/Heavy Metal Fusion theme, entitled "Ancient Greek Music - THRASHED ON AN AXE"! ;o)
Klezfiddle1 1 year ago 3
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Aint worth a shit really.
izvn 1 year ago
Because of copyright matters, would you please acknowledge that the original transcription/translation is mine. Thanks
richarddumbrill 1 year ago 15
@richarddumbrill My sincere apologies - I have included full details now in the video description of all my videos which feature my arrangement of this melody, as well as a purchase link to your book "The Archeomusicology of the Near East". I recently discovered your incredible videos on your reconstruction of the Silver Lyre of Ur - once of the most amazing finds on Youtube!
Klezfiddle1 1 year ago 8
@richarddumbrill you say that on every oldest song vid. im starting to think you dont own any of them
BakuraSR45 1 year ago
@BakuraSR45 Wow, that is so interesting. You should become a copyright lawyer!
richarddumbrill 1 year ago
@richarddumbrill i cant really tell if it's sarcastic, but unless you were born in 1400 BC, you cant own this music lolz you dumbfuck
BakuraSR45 1 year ago
@BakuraSR45 Before insulting people, you should know that in copyright law, the translator of ancient texts are the owners of the translation of the texts. I did not write these laws, but your constitution did, so perhaps you should tell them they are 'dumfucks' as you imaginatively put it, rather than telling me that I am a 'dumbfuck'. Perhaps you should try doing a better translation than mine, then we could speak on equal terms.
richarddumbrill 1 year ago
@richarddumbrill Ok really? You are fighting with a 12 yr old girl on Youtube about music. Why do you have to get all mad at people when they haven't memorized an important part of YOUR job? And if I bothered making a better translation than yours, you would write that YOU owned it on the video. For example, on Freeevian's remix video, you told him you wrote the song, even though his remix sounded NOTHING like your version
BakuraSR45 1 year ago
@BakuraSR45 I am not fighting you. You are fighting me.
richarddumbrill 1 year ago
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@richarddumbrill really, man. i have better things to do. leave me alone!
BakuraSR45 1 year ago
@richarddumbrill What you are is an asshole, now go away.
BadMuffler 1 year ago
@BakuraSR45 "must be born in 1400 BC" "cant tell if ur sarcastic" are you really this stupid?
Corporatist 1 year ago
@Corporatist when i said i couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic, i was being sarcastic. i meant that his comeback was so lame i couldn't tell if it was even a comeback. when i said he had to be born in 1400, i meant he had to be born in 1400 BC to physically right it. he was the one who translated it, but he says he WROTE IT. what i mean is if you ask some one who read his comment who wrote this song, they will say "Richard Dumbrill" NOT "Assyrians" (or whoever) Think before you type, dumbass
BakuraSR45 1 year ago
@richarddumbrill
It's nearly 3500 years old, copyright only lasts for 75.
3500 > 75
Out of courtesy, he should acknowledge the transcription is yours but it has nothing to do with copyright
vampiremonkeyonspeed 1 year ago 6
@vampiremonkeyonspeed
I agree, copyright for something this old is absurd. However, as you said acknowledge should be given.
Hey, creds to Dumbrill though.
Asmoreis 1 year ago
@vampiremonkeyonspeed probably more to do with youtube's bullshit copyright policy than Professor Dumbrill's.
EdsEnemy 1 year ago