the Epic of Gilgamesh (by ~GOD~): Prologue

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song: "And Now..."
This track introduces the recording of Stephen Mitchell's 2004 translation, "Gilgamesh," of this 7000 year old Babylonian litarary classic, narrated for www.recordedbooks.com by George Guidall. The first five books of this version I recorded from the audio-tape version that I checked out from the local library. The tracks recording books 6-11 I downloaded from www.greylodge.org as a bittorrent.

song: "He Had Seen Everything..."
The prologue of this edition does not occur in earlier translations, however has been included in Mitchell's version instead of the "Death of Gilgamesh" chapter at the end, published in earlier translations (eg. the Penguin Classics edition). Musically, we are introduced first to the theme used throughout as the motif of the elders of Uruk, who are presumed to be the narrator or chorus of the original writing. The music I used for their theme is their self-titled track, "Sabahiya," from the album "Passion Sources," a collection of middle-eastern "world" music released on "Real World" records by producer Peter Gabriel as a compendium piece to his soundtrack to the Martin Scorcesse film, "the Last Temptation of Christ." Following this we are introudced to the musical motif used throughout to represent the setting of Uruk, the city where Gilgamesh reigned. To represent Uruk, I used the track "Tejbeit" from the same album, attributed to unknown "Ethiopian Musicians."

album: Gilgamesh
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Education

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[FieldmanMr]

Music obscures the reading.