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  • Beautiful :) I've been on an endless hunt to find a lyre and I'll probably be saving up forever to afford it, how much would I be expecting to pay for one? In Aus

  • @ZaffiroWilderwood Check out the blog on my "ancientlyre" website (URL given on my Youtube Channel Page) entitled "How To Acquire a Lyre" - this lists and reviews all the makers of lyres that I know of!

  • music started beautiful like this and ended up like Baby by Justin Bieber. A long way to the doom. I hope we can go on reverse

  • awesome

    

  • This isnt the oldest Melody.....in history...but its the oldest melody that is found! I mean pepole have had drums and such things since human was created

  • could u get me the guitar tabs for this, or bass guitar tabs please.

  • 5:15 it's the oldest rock song

  • @ilyacibko ...just WISH I had been born in about 2012 BC - I could have become a Bronze Age rock god!! ;o)

  • This is fabulous...I just started reading a book on Canaanite mythology today ( Gibson, 1956). Thank you for making these videos...we are so lucky to live in a time with the means to reconstruct so much of the past. I love archaeology! Do you have plans for a CD, or just stick with the mp3 format?

  • @CatherinePoloynis CDs of ALL my 12 albums of ancient lyre music are now available to order, anywhere in the world, from Reverbnation! CDs of my 1st 3 albums are also available from Amazon & CD Baby - for full details, please visit the "albums" section of my website (URL given in the video description & on my Youtube Channel Page)

  • very inspiring to use in a piece of music or intro.

  • FREE BIRD!!!

  • Thank you for this video!what instrument is this?

  • @TheCatblack7 The instrument is a replica lyre - similar to the 3400 year old portable Canaanite lyres...played at the actual time this tune was written!

  • @Klezfiddle1 thank you! keep up the good work!

  • Thank you for sharing this great!

  • Sounds like Peter Green to me - in his very late Fleetwood Mac days jamming to a simple chord structure. And I hear the melody of Lady DArbanville. Its fantastic - the reverbation sound is stunning and your playing is marvellous. Thanks for posting!

  • The very notion of a piece of music this old is in and of itself wondrous.I imagine this piece being played at dusk in an ancient Syrian court for a people who lived so long ago that their world is as distant to us as starlight.Pure magic.

  • The Hurrians were more related to the Near Easterners than they were the Indo-European Hittites, Hattians, or Greeks, etc.. To say otherwise is nonsensical.

  • "My arrangement here, is based on the original transcription of the melody, as interpreted by Prof. Richard Dumbrill." What do you mean by based on? How close to the original would you say it is?

    Also, this is so amazing. I have heard and read about the exact tablet you describe in my history studies. To see someone play it, to hear it. That's amazing.

  • IN THE NAME OF GILGAMESH,REUPLOAD THIS IN A BETTER QUALITY !

  • @huqmierocketlauncher Unfortunately, at the time I recorded this, my "Broadband" speed was also still in the Bronze Age!!

  • @huqmierocketlauncher surely this is totally spurious? Until the (Western European - by Monks in the Middle ages) invention of musical notation, it was impossible to record music in notiational format (since this did not exist). So music could only be passed on in a "illiterate" way i.e. from musician to musician. But 3400 years? This is the equivalent of those 1960's Hoillywood films showing "cavemen" and Dinasors co-existing i.e. complete bullshit.

  • @MrMikenotts01 Thousands of years before Western musical notation evolved, the ancient Egyptians & Hebrews had a form of musical notation using hand gestures (chironomy - still practiced in the Coptic Church today!) & the ancient Greeks used an alphabetical form of musical notation - from which over 60 fragments of the actual music of ancient Greece have been reconstructed! The cuneifom musical text of the 3400 year old Hurrian Hymn was, in esense, like a "guitar tab"...for lyre!

  • @MrMikenotts01 Only there were musical notations BEFORE the western one...

    Get educated before making a fool of yourself...

  • @MrMikenotts01 Oh good lord.. *facepalm*

  • @MrMikenotts01 Omg... What you said should replace whatever Webster's Dictionary says the definition of Ignorance is...

  • 1:43 was so, so pretty. I almost cried. Ancient music is so pretty.

  • This is amazing! Brilliant playing.

    How much did the lyre cost or did you make it? I'd love to play one but I've always assumed they were super-duper expensive.

  • I want to have sex to this song

  • Shma Israel, Adonay eloheynu, Adonay ehad!

  • Shma Israel, Adonay eloheynu, adonay ehad!

  • What a treat to stumble upon this dreary November morning! This music is ethereal and earthy at the same time! I love it! It truly transports me to another time. Thanks so much for posting the video and the wonderful teaching in the text!

  • Fantastic:)

  • I absolutely love this piece. My wife is driven to distraction with my "ancient" historical music collection. Fantastic. Thanks for the posting!

  • WoW thats amazing, music is really timeless. Especialy from 5:00 on, you can imagine what they felt like.

  • Sounds like Nirvana

  • No reflection on how you are playing it as there is no one else to compare it to.

    But ... if this is all that I would have to listen to today, I would go into a deep depression and kill myself.

  • I could fall asleep to this. Is this authentic?

  • You bring so much soul to this! I can tell the Ancient Canaanites (as the Greeks) really knew how to Rock! I can just imagine drums and pipes in the background. This must have been a wonderful piece back then and you have revived much breath in the body of it. Thank you so much! :-)

  • I just love it, just nice.

  • not the oldest...far from it.

  • @buddyrush1059 Yo, Bro!!! I IS the "Gordon Freeman" character clone (from the "Half-Life" PC game!) of Archaemusicology! ;o)

    

  • christainUtuber favours this video, unlucky m8

  • @DRm2mon It's sad that people have such an image of the middle east. I'm an American, and I really appreciate this video as well as the many positive contributions of the area to the whole rest of the world. I will share it with all my friends!

  • ugarit is located in my latakia , I hope you come and visit it.

  • Do you have any Ancient Egyptian music?

  • @StaticBinary Although no exaples of ancient Egyptian music survive, the ancient Egyptians did have a form of musical notation using hand gestures called "chironomy" - the late Prof Hans Hickmann deciphered a minor pentantonic scale from some of these chironomy gestures. I recorded a few improvisations on this scale, available from my following albums: "The Music of Moses" (track 1, "King David's Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel", "Ancient Harps of Kemet" (track 1 , "The Ancient Egyptian Harp")

  • Yes. this is our culture.. this is our history..

    i am proud of it..

    its funny because the other day one of my american friends asked me what has the middle east gave us except wars?

  • At one point it sounds like the Halo theme...i did an aural double take...ahahaha

  • cant believe i listen music that people listened to 3400 years ago !

  • This is sooo good

  • In 18th century, the catholics were supposed to guard different sets of music history, including scales that this very music were written on. "Somehow" a scale called the "Solfeggio scale" was lost by the catholics (Clearly not) and we have only just re discovered them. they were on a higher pitch, with a more valiant/triumphant feeling. The mose common of these frequencies on the solfeggio scale is 528Hz. This frequency is also harmful to a reptilian descendent if you ever meet one...

  • better than bieber

  • the ONLY Hurrian Hymn perfomance that makes sense i've heard by now. Good job!

  • what is that instramint?

  • Could've headlined at Woodstock.

  • Magnificent. What's the name of that Beautiful Instrument you are playing?

  • @TheEternalMercy And where can I buy it? :D

  • Beautiful.

    You might want to change your title to say oldest Western song.

    Songs were written long before that in India.

  •  Incredibil!

  • great melody, thank you very much!

    

  • Hey man i just want to thank you i was listing to this song on LSD yesterday and it was the coolest thing i have ever done in my life Lol thank you once again.

  • i don't like the end. The guy with glasses that was playing this seemed to have added his own style at the end and it sort of lost its' enchantment. Just saying...

  • Perfection and brilliance! Thank you for posting this beautiful sound!

    I wonder what other musical gems were there in those long lost texts of Ugarit...

    I am sure that ancient music has survived somewhere else! This is like a soundscape time machine!!!

  • Fascinating - and beautiful music well played. I wonder how on earth this was transcribed in cuneiform and how it was deciphered. Thanks for posting.

  • I can't believe how beautiful this is. The oldest known song is nowhere near the crudest.

  • @Boinky8 This is what fascinated me about ancient music - music is literally timeless...event the oldest music ever written still ha exatly the same effect on the listener now as it did 3400 years ago! Another example, is the faoous "Epitaph of Seikilos", the 1st piece of written music from ancient Greece to have survived in its complete form (as opposed to earlier fragments)...both the melody notated & the words sound as if they were written in modern times!

  • @Klezfiddle1 @Klezfiddle1 "Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious. Psalms 66:1-2." No matter how you take the Bible, after hearing ancient music, you have to understand the same things. It's a universal sound that creates a universal feeling. A timeless feeling of inspiration, that here in 2011, makes us appreciate our ancestors just as much as ever before.

  • @punchdrunkatheist Also, totally off topic, was the last bit actually in the notation? You really rocked out there, haha. :P I love history, and this history of music... man that's amazing.

  • @Boinky8 very good shame about the hiss, if you want older music try non westernised digeridoo try bamyali stuff on youtube by me birdandthe

  • @birdandthe cud be thirty thou years old

  • This is beautiful

  • Pretty sure that's a Blondie song....

  • we had found in sidon this year the oldest ivory known flute 700bc...see it at link ..badran106...nice ...keep history alive man.....

  • Man you gotta play some bottleneck blues on that thing!

  • Very interesting - I just showed my world history students this.

  • Ryje banie!

  • Ancient headbanging at 5:00! \m/ :D

  • That's what I call "Old School"

  • Really spectacular!!

  • Wow the dark ages totally reset society. Around 5:00 it actually is similar to rock music, not completely similar, but still very close. Its undeniably eerie.

  • You would be surprised about the musical skill and feeling our ancient ancestors had

  • very interesting and cool.

  • the ancients could rock

  • Try also "The Music of the Bible Revealed: Numbers 6:22-27" on teamim channel :-)

  • What country is this music from?

  • @Lilycha100 its from antarctica!

  • Karmenaburana

  • "Play some old!"

  • an interpretation. i bet it sounded nothing like this. I bet it was faster. like death metal lol. We dont know what they were like 4000 years ago, maybe they were into faster music.

  • I've listened to this 10 times today. No Joke. Excellent!!!!!

  • Wow, shit gets real near the end.

    Very cool.

  • this is the best i have ever heard thumbs up ppl.

  • Bravo!

  • where can i get a lyre??

  • god this is beautiful and.... oddly familiar..... but why??? some people keep telling me i have an old soul but.......

  • AWESOME!

  • My heart grows when I listen to your music. I've found peace. Thank you...

  • Wow... people bad then had good taste in music

  • I have read on wikipedia the oldest written music is from Nippur dated to about 2000 BC.

  • Amazing,very peaceful takes me back to easier times,a whole other world really!Could you by any chance do some psalms?Because weren't they written to be played on a lyre/harp?I digress but beautfiul nonetheless!

  • I hope you don't mind if I use this on a demo. I'm in a DSBM project, and I wanted to find a neat instrumental to cover, and this is beyond perfect!!

  • @JapaneseGolfClubs Cheers! Not a problem - coul

    d you please mention my website in the credits (URL given on my Youtube Channel Page)...thanks! Glad you enjoy my "Musical Adventures in Time Travel"...

  • @JapaneseGolfClubs if your looking for a new instrumental to cover, you better read the title again.

  • @JapaneseGolfClubs ooops, that says neat instrumental. Thought it said "new instrumental..." sorry, my fault.

  • It's amazing to think that someone has listened to this 3400 years ago... The feeling is magical.

  • That is fabulous...

  • i think justin beiber wrote this.

  • @jndillaha Wow, I had no idea the dude had talent! shocking!

  • i dont believe you, this sounds similar to modern hiphop/rap basslines. maybe the same person who wrote it then produced again... just a thought.

  • this is really good i like this:3

  • @Accisma

    It was a joke regarding music perfectionists who insist on keeping guitars/basses tuned to E all the time.

  • Amazing song .. :), I really want to learn it as I'm from Lattakia (3KM) away from Ugarit (Ras Shamra).

    This is Syria, the first alphapet in the world, the firs written melody in the world.

    I encourage you to come to Syria and visit Ebla, Ugarit, Mari, Dura Europos, Palmyra and so many amazing places from the ancient time. :)

  • Hurrians were ancestors of the Kurds, Turks and Armenians. Not Syrians. Great piece of music.

  • @donthakiller

    ha ha ha very funny ... :D :D :D

    1400 BC!!! and you are talking about the kurds and turks ... are you crazy ..!!!!!!!

    the Hurrians came to the area but that doesn't mean that the came with their language and music ;)

    they learnt everything form Ugarit and Ebla :)

    I advice you to go the the library and read some books about the history in Syria :)

    Every person has two homelands his own and Syria (André Parrot - director of the Louvre from 1968 to 1972)

  • @1987MrSyria Dude, you can't say "they learned everything from" Ugarit and Ebla. I know Syria has it's own ancient civilizations, but you can't possibly say such things. According to historic research and most historians, they agree that Iraq is the cradle of civilization, not Syria. Plus, I think historians know when they write that this was Hurrian, as the Hurrians themselves probably confirmed this to them one way or the other. Plus Syrian Arabs (many) like Iraqi ones are close to Kurd/Turks.

  • @donthakiller We all agree that the oldest civilization were located south of Mesopotamia, but we have to admit that the excavations have since revealed Uagrit with a prehistory reaching back to 6000 BC.

    At that time I do not think the Hurrians were even exist !

    I do not want to separate between the history of Mesopotamia and the Levant as the area witnessed a fusion of many cultures with each other and did not come from one civilization in particular e.x. (Phoenician=Ugaritian+Amorites­)

  • Yes I understand your point, but most historians etc agree that Mesopotamia is the cradle of civilization and now after new evidences are dug up they are starting to believe that it was in fact in North Mesopotamia (North Iraq, South East Turkey areas) that civilization first began. You say Hurrians didn't even exist 6,000 years BF which you can not prove. And also Syrians were just a branch of Mesopotamians, nothing more. Anyone with a decent lack of understanding acknowledges this fact. Peace.

  • @donthakiller BC* sorry. I just would like to also point out, that all of us are related and we are all indigenous. Iraqi and Syrian Arabs are much closer to Kurds, Turks, Persians, Assyrians and Armenians than to original Arabs of Yemen and South Saudi Arabia areas. Comprehensive genetic research is supporting this theory.

  • @donthakiller I agree, for what it's worth. I read that too, and really it shouldn't be surprising.

  • Impressive!

    Estoy impresionado

    perhaps the error of modern man is in the old thinking that has no resemblance to today's world, when in fact the basis for much of our culture and thought process, the striking resemblance of the notes chord with many contemporary, Hurrians me can see that our thought processes were very similar, the only difference is the information we have now, and they had them.

  • Much better than Justin Bieber.

  • THIS IS EJYPTS VERSION OF- ROCK AND ROLL ALL NIGHT AND PARTY EVERY DAY

  • Weird how "no.6" can be the oldest song...

  • @wsxtgbedc That's becuase although 29 musical texts were discovered at Ugarit, only text "H6" was in good enough condition (although water damaged), that various academic interpretations of the melody could be reconstructed from the surviving Cuneiform text on the water-damaged 3400 year old clay tablet on which the Hymn was wrtten. This is Dr. Richard Dumbrill's interpretation of the melody.

  • @Klezfiddle1 amjazing! listening to 1920's blues music is like going back in time but this... wow, real time machine! thank you!

  • Very cool! Thanks for sharing. That's a really neat hobby you have!

  • damn hippies.

  • Good night, Cleveland! There will be no encore!

  • I so want to learn this amazing song on the guitar. Are there any tabs available?

  • @MellonVegan I stumbled on the sheet music for this, the 3400 year old "Hurrian Hymn" on a website by Clint Goss for Native American Flute! Just Google it and the notes of Dr Richard Dumbrill's interpretation of the melody will magically pop up for you...

  • @Klezfiddle1 this is actually not the first song ever written. this was written in 1658

  • Beautiful instrument.

  • love it... did you use reverb or other effects though?

  • @schizoidchimp Glad you like y ultimate "Musical Adventure in Time Travel" ! I miced up the lyre with a regular acoustic guitar pickup to my VOX Valvetronix guitar amp - with just a hint of added reverb..for that mystical "Bronze Age Vibe"! Just a pity that I had such a crappy webcam//PC mic "setup" at the time I recorded this lovely but sadly very much" Lo Fi" vid :o(

  • Also called After The Battle Of Aughram

  • It sounds like Return From Fingal which is a Celtic tune

  • Proud to be kurd!! Woow so nice music!! I have now added this on my facebook! Very cool! Hurrians are among ancestor to kurds. Hurrians were also indoeuropeans I think. Oshnaviyeh and Mahabad is a city in Iran created by hurrians and those cities belongs to hurrians in Iran belongs to kurds by majority over around 95%. Kurds live in hurrian territorium since native empires of kurdish ancestors in Kurdistan today. Kurds have no semitic ancestors. Kurds are native I have heard.We are Indoeuropean

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  • I am genuinely AMAZED by your skill.... its amazing to hear what the Ancients must have heard as far as music is concerned.

    How did you pick an instrument to play this on? Or was that on the tablet?

  • @pr9nkaholic Glad you like my "Musical Adventure in Time Travel"! The lyre I play is a replica of the Biblical "Kinnor" - the lyre once played in the Temlpe of Jersusalem. It is virtually identical to the tyes of Canaanite lyres dating back to the period of the Hurrian Hymn I am playing. For full details please see the "Historical Research" section of my "ancientlyre" website (URL given on my YOutube Channel Page). This piece features on my album "An Ancient Lyre" (available from iTunes)

  • @pr9nkaholic The lyre on which I play, although a replica of the Biblical Lyre of the ancient Hebrews, is almost the same as the types of portable Canaanite lyres played 3400 years ago - at the time this music was preserved on the clay tablet found at Ugarit!

  • Loved it. Thank you!

  • Thank you. Beautiful.

  • My music teacher told me today that the epitaph of seikeilos in greece is the oldest written melody ever recovered. Is he wrong? This stuff really interests me. :D

  • @mroubison Epitah of Seikilos is merely the oldest COMPLETE piece of music so far discovered from antiquity - there are many FRAGMENTS of much earlier examples of written music, including the Hurrian Hymn (Text H6), dating to c.1400BC!! The complete 3000 year old, original music of the Hebrew Bible was also claimed to have been deciphered by the late Suzanne Haik Vantoura - all details in the "Historical Research" secion of my ancientlyre website(URL given on my Youtube Channel Page)

  • @Klezfiddle1 I liked how the song gets very rock sounding at the end. Was that in the 3400 year old notation or was that your own twist?

  • Eric Clapton, is that you? :P

  • Did you make that instrument, or did you buy it somewhere? I love it.

  • I shall meditate upon this music daily. Om Sharavana Bhavaha Namaha

  • the instrument is called an ancient greek lyre to be exact

  • where can i find sheet music for this??

  • @NewDisneySucksHard I stumbled across the modern musical notation for this piece, "Hurrian Hymn", on a website by Clint Goss for Native American Flute! Just do a quick Google search and you will find it. There were 29 musical texts found at Ugarit, but only this one, text H6, was in a sufficient state of preservation that it could be interpreted by musicologists. This is Dr Richard Dumbrill's interpretation of this incredible 3400 year old melody...

  • Yo the brother be jammin that Hurrian music

  • Have you added reverb to this recording - or is the instrument really that resonant?

  • 3400 year old lyre players were kind of badass.

    That melody wouldn't sound out of place in a Nine Inch Nails song.

  • Imagine if he dropped the riff from 'Smoke on the Water' into this, just to mess with us??

  • I LOVE THAT TUNE! Whats the name of that instrument anyway?

  • @MrWilliam5564 Glad you like it! This tune can be heard on track 2 of my album, "An Ancient Lyre", available from iTunes! The lyre is called a "Kinnor" - a replica of the 10-string Biblical lyre mentioned throughout the Hebrew Bible. It was once played by King David, & later, by the Levites in the Temple of Jerusalem, to accompany the siiging of the Levitical Choir. This type of lyre is very similar to the types of portable lyres played throughout the ancient Near East...

  • @MrWilliam5564 lyre

  • Thing not to do : When a girl that u want hang out with ask u about ur favourite song, don't tell her The Oldest Written Melody in History c.1400 BC!!!

  • @psycosid666

    A curious girl like I would be amazed if he said that.

  • @Pestinha92 you're my kind of girl, but I still don't find one like you on earth ... your boyfriend is a lucky guy

  • @psycosid666

    I'm single and a bit anti-social and grumpy :P

    Its not that hard to find decent girls, you just need to keep in mind that nobody is perfect and the last place where you would expect to find someone is sometimes the best.

  • I don't like it...I felt annoyed after listening to this. Audio quality is bad.

  • @jeditight no maybe your computer speakers are bad!

  • Ah, the serene dorian mode, being used even 3400 years ago, and surley earlier.

    It's calming sound due to it's location in the diatonic collection is timeless.

  • 4:35 eye of the tiger!!!!

  • Sounds like Jimmy Page

  • Klezfiddle: Incredible. There should be a study of musical influence similar to linguistic association. This melody sounds a lot like the "base" of what modern Ukraine, Tartar, or Turkish stringed music "differs" from modern Greek lyre melodies. It's almost less melodic more rythmic. This is the difference between current pakistani or indian music and music from the Agean. Your opinion? It's like this is the missing link, and what changed Greek melodic lyre to the rythmic Cyrillan current music.

  • reminiscent of "paint it black" at times...

  • Beautiful work! Thanks for this scholarship and creativity to give us a sensual bit of the past unlike any other, in music....I look forward to learning more from your contributions! JD at AncientLights

  • thank you with all my heart for learning and sharing this.

  • amazing

  • It becomes even more epic towards the end.

  • What instrument is that it sounds really cool

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