@BellamyCatherine Contrary to the urban myth of Western superiority in "inventing" modern musical notation, over 3000 years ago, both the ancient Egyptians & Hebrews used a sytem of hand gestures known as "chironomy" to represent changes & pitch & there were advanced musical texts discovered at Ugarit in ancient Mesopotamia - including Hurrian Hymn, text H6...which at 1400BCE, is the oldest fragment of music ever discovered!
@Klezfiddle1 Yes, I know. But I can'n understand, how and where can a musician find them nowadays. Are they in any museums? It means great efforts of reaching the opportunity to see them, I suppose... And in this case these efforts are worth being admired!
@BellamyCatherine The surviving fragments of ancient Greek music are in a book by Martin R West, which I have listed in the bibliography at the end of the "Historical Reserch" section of my "ancientlyre" website (URL given on my Youtube Channel Page). "Epitaph of Seikilos" & "The 1st Delphic Hymn to Apollo" can be found in Wikipedia & the 3400 year old Hurrian Hymn tet H6, as interpreted by Dr Richard Dumbrill, is on a website by Clint Goss on the Native American Flute!
2.26 - russian "kalinka, kalinka, kalinka moya, eh yagoda kalinka? kalinka moya" - i dont think egyptians knew that themes at that times. But... Maybe ancient egyptians were russian ancestors? :) Also i dont think any of ancient music can now be reconstructed...
Ok. But where are all the other instruments? Like flutes and all the other horns, and what about the percussion: the rhythm group! ... C'mon... it was much more fun back old days than that ! ...
This is typical of a male-dominated attitude to histroy. Notice the women musicians reduced to a state of nudity, most probably a consequence of economic and other kinds of deprivation, while the king looks so well-dressed! History is still full of such biases and injustices committed by men. I think that's where we need to focus on instead of focusing on less imporatnt issues.
@ritubahar You know what bothers me? Nature discriminating against biological life forms. Nature has dominated biological life forms throughout the history of life because it created the rules of life and death, which is offensive to those of us who fear death and want it to go away. At least in our minds, so we may be comforted. Maybe the universe is alive, and it mocks us as imperfect beings. I demand reparations for being born on a planet during a time period when life has to end!
@ritubahar Technology reverses natural selection. As technology improves, society changes toward a less natural and more "blank-slate" culture. The unequal status of people in the past was not necessarily wrong, it was just a different time period with different technology.
Do you have examples of ancient or early/late antiquity Celtic music? (By Celtic, I am not referring only to Celts on the British Isles, but more or less Celts west of present day Switzerland) I've seen another youtube video on Celtic (I should say Irish) horns. But the horn players don't have music to play, just the instruments themselves.
both Mesopotamian and Egyptian music sounds really like today's Japanese traditional instruments!! I'm telling this not bcz Im Japanese, nor want to show how great we are, as a guy who do practice it. Plz listen to the instrument call "Koto", a Japanese harp, and judge this.
I'm surprised that I haven't commented on this before now. I've watched you grow in your ability to perform on this instrument and to arrange for it, and all I can say is, I'm... awed. I know how clunky that particular kind of lyre is, as I've said before (mics very well, just not a good acoustic instrument).
The harp on the far left at 2:03 is clearly identical to some examples I have seen of the Baganda "udungu," in that they both have a bowed neck. The sound box varies greatly, but boat shapes are common. The harp shown at 2:13 with the straight neck, at aright angle to the sound box more closely resembles those seen in Sumerian and Babylonian art. The major difference that I see between any of the three cultures is that all three hold the harp differently.
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aachelabelaaron 2 days ago
Wow, where and how do you usually find out the notes?
BellamyCatherine 2 weeks ago in playlist prehistoric music
@BellamyCatherine Contrary to the urban myth of Western superiority in "inventing" modern musical notation, over 3000 years ago, both the ancient Egyptians & Hebrews used a sytem of hand gestures known as "chironomy" to represent changes & pitch & there were advanced musical texts discovered at Ugarit in ancient Mesopotamia - including Hurrian Hymn, text H6...which at 1400BCE, is the oldest fragment of music ever discovered!
Klezfiddle1 2 weeks ago
@Klezfiddle1 Yes, I know. But I can'n understand, how and where can a musician find them nowadays. Are they in any museums? It means great efforts of reaching the opportunity to see them, I suppose... And in this case these efforts are worth being admired!
BellamyCatherine 2 weeks ago
@BellamyCatherine The surviving fragments of ancient Greek music are in a book by Martin R West, which I have listed in the bibliography at the end of the "Historical Reserch" section of my "ancientlyre" website (URL given on my Youtube Channel Page). "Epitaph of Seikilos" & "The 1st Delphic Hymn to Apollo" can be found in Wikipedia & the 3400 year old Hurrian Hymn tet H6, as interpreted by Dr Richard Dumbrill, is on a website by Clint Goss on the Native American Flute!
Klezfiddle1 2 weeks ago
@Klezfiddle1 Wow. It's really very interesting. Thanks a lot! I'll have a look at these websites with great pleasure.
BellamyCatherine 2 weeks ago
2.26 - russian "kalinka, kalinka, kalinka moya, eh yagoda kalinka? kalinka moya" - i dont think egyptians knew that themes at that times. But... Maybe ancient egyptians were russian ancestors? :) Also i dont think any of ancient music can now be reconstructed...
antey4556 1 month ago
@ritubahar shut the fuck up and wash them dishes. Ain't like women went and killed shit to feed the family
cheefitupnow 1 month ago
justin bieber would make the most ancient music....
Xpeller1 2 months ago
Doesn't sound that old.KIND OF LIKE HEAVY METAL????????
GREAT JOB.PLEASE KEEP IT UP
diagreen 4 months ago
@diagreen ...maybe that's why they called it "The Bronze Age"!
Klezfiddle1 2 weeks ago
thanks
agmmnn1 4 months ago
i am glad to say that we have found the only ivory flute from ancient times 700 BC
in sidon....se it at link badran106....thank you all....
badran106 5 months ago in playlist More videos from Klezfiddle1
Ok. But where are all the other instruments? Like flutes and all the other horns, and what about the percussion: the rhythm group! ... C'mon... it was much more fun back old days than that ! ...
wellpelko 5 months ago
thankyou so much for this amazing upload.....luv it xxxx
nor2nor 5 months ago
Respect for the old music melody :)
humanghaffari 5 months ago
I want it absolutely!!! How can I do to get it???
Rauseref 6 months ago
@Rauseref All my 11 albums of lyre music are available from iTunes, Amazon & CD Baby - physical CD's are available from Reverbnation -
for all details, please see my "ancientlyre" website (URL for this given n my Youtube Channel Page! Many thanks for your interest in my music...
Klezfiddle1 6 months ago
@IranErfan And how does that make this video fake?
derbigpr500 6 months ago
This is typical of a male-dominated attitude to histroy. Notice the women musicians reduced to a state of nudity, most probably a consequence of economic and other kinds of deprivation, while the king looks so well-dressed! History is still full of such biases and injustices committed by men. I think that's where we need to focus on instead of focusing on less imporatnt issues.
ritubahar 6 months ago
@ritubahar You know what bothers me? Nature discriminating against biological life forms. Nature has dominated biological life forms throughout the history of life because it created the rules of life and death, which is offensive to those of us who fear death and want it to go away. At least in our minds, so we may be comforted. Maybe the universe is alive, and it mocks us as imperfect beings. I demand reparations for being born on a planet during a time period when life has to end!
Preposterify 6 months ago
@Preposterify You didn't respond to the points I raised in my comment. Instead you talked about something else. Do you have any comment or response?
ritubahar 6 months ago
@ritubahar Technology reverses natural selection. As technology improves, society changes toward a less natural and more "blank-slate" culture. The unequal status of people in the past was not necessarily wrong, it was just a different time period with different technology.
Preposterify 6 months ago
Do you have examples of ancient or early/late antiquity Celtic music? (By Celtic, I am not referring only to Celts on the British Isles, but more or less Celts west of present day Switzerland) I've seen another youtube video on Celtic (I should say Irish) horns. But the horn players don't have music to play, just the instruments themselves.
gavinjengel 7 months ago
This is the coolest thing ever!! Thank you for posting! Loving it!
72DBRONCO 7 months ago
Israelis and David are Mesopotamians :)
69ParadiseLost 7 months ago
what about ancient persian music sighs
farzinfarzad 8 months ago
00:52 fucking scared me D: hehe
ale2107 8 months ago
simply mystical...this music take me back in time and gives me the chills...this is real music.
oalsecnev1 11 months ago
hmmmmmmmmmmm back 2 the roots wonderfullll,thank u 4 the vid!!!
infinitesophie 11 months ago
The real Judaism never worship stones or statues?
yezidisbroadcasting 1 year ago 4
@yezidisbroadcasting The real religion of anything has idolatry of some physical things.
sammy1339 1 year ago
Beautiful!
HardbeatAcolyte 1 year ago
Awesome your music...awesome!!
amarys2art 1 year ago 2
Hurrians are today known as Armenians
sasua741 1 year ago
they didnt record music in ancient times until 1860s
bunnyz324 1 year ago 2
@bunnyz324 you can write music too, you know... ._.
ale2107 8 months ago
both Mesopotamian and Egyptian music sounds really like today's Japanese traditional instruments!! I'm telling this not bcz Im Japanese, nor want to show how great we are, as a guy who do practice it. Plz listen to the instrument call "Koto", a Japanese harp, and judge this.
bfdjkku 1 year ago
absolutely wonderful. i have to get this on my ipod
5656onelove5656 1 year ago 4
I'm surprised that I haven't commented on this before now. I've watched you grow in your ability to perform on this instrument and to arrange for it, and all I can say is, I'm... awed. I know how clunky that particular kind of lyre is, as I've said before (mics very well, just not a good acoustic instrument).
Beautiful video on all levels! :)
rakkav 1 year ago
The harp on the far left at 2:03 is clearly identical to some examples I have seen of the Baganda "udungu," in that they both have a bowed neck. The sound box varies greatly, but boat shapes are common. The harp shown at 2:13 with the straight neck, at aright angle to the sound box more closely resembles those seen in Sumerian and Babylonian art. The major difference that I see between any of the three cultures is that all three hold the harp differently.
leftysergeant 1 year ago
WOW
Thank you
VendPrekmurec 1 year ago
Shalom Shabat my good friend! This music is awesome!
reverendd 1 year ago
Ancient music and art are so beautiful! Great work Michael!
TheWesternRose 1 year ago
THIS IS AWESOME
FreakZilla34 1 year ago
Thank you!
waxsleeptoe 1 year ago