The world's oldest song (1400 BC)!! midis!!

by Leolaia 23 Replies latest jw friends

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  Leolaia

  These are midis of songs from musical notation recorded in ancient texts. It's nothing like what you can download and stuff your hard drive with, but it's interesting to hear what might have been performed thousands of years ago. What do you think? I like the first song a lot and the Athenaios one is pretty creepy.

  Hurrian chant to the moon-god Nikkal (from Ugarit, 1400 BC)
  http://www.nationwide.net/~amaranth/kilmer.mid

  Alternate arrangement of the Hurrian chant
  http://members.aol.com/ricdum/arrangement.mid

  Tuning exercise in playing the lyre (from Nipper, 1000-500 BC)
  http://www.rakkav.com/kdhinc/midis/cbs10996.mid

  Reconstruction of the melody to Psalm 133 (from Judea, c. 500 BC)
  http://www.rakkav.com/kdhinc/midis/psalm133.mid

  Paean of Athenaios (from Delphi, 128 BC)
  http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/dam19.mid

  Lament for Aiax's Death (from Greece, c. A.D. 200)
  http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/dam32.mid
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  Sirius Dogma

  Very cool.

  I like the alternate arrangement, maybe I will do a trance remix of it or something in a few weeks Not sure if the Athenaios song is supposed to be sliding notes all over like it does, if it does, it is creepy.

  I remember being told as a child that one of the songs in the witness songbook about the exodus was a recreation of the hebrew notes/letters used. That the letters in hebrew have a particular note assinged to them. The song started... "sing to jehovah, because he had beecome highly exalted, the horse and its rider he has pitched into the sea". Funny how I remember that, I always like that song.
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  Leolaia

  Hey that would be awesome :). I'm a bit partial to the first one just because I've been listening to it since the '80s, but the second one is snappier and a bit less repititous sounding. I think I heard the same claim about one of the KM songs, but the one you described is definitely not the same psalm on the list.
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  professor

  "sing to jehovah, because he had beecome highly exalted, the horse and its rider he has pitched into the sea".

  Remember that song came out in a bible drama about Moses before the new songbook came out.
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  nilfun

  Fascinating.

  ~Nilfun, who thinks that the "Jehovah led the horse and its rider to water...and boy did He make them drink!" ditty needs a bit more cowbell...
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  LittleToe

  "A Victory Song" (taken from the "Song of Moses") was my favourite as a dub, although it was pretty well doctrinally biased, after the first verse.

  Leo - very interesting.
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  frankiespeakin

  A triple post by accident
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  frankiespeakin

  opps!
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  frankiespeakin

  Leolaia,

  This is totally cool, these ancient songs make me think of evolution and how man was comming to consciousness, andthe ability to decern what is evil, and what is good, and the need to worship God that came with this consciousness.

  All though this need to worship God was probably 100's thousands year old by then, I often wounder if there are deep messages in these song's that our modern computor age may someday extract. Like the theory of "Chaos" and all those "fractals" that before the computor;;; were just considers random fuctuations to mathamatic nonlinier problems. Who would have guessed it? The idea seemed so prepostereous, but the beauty of it is;;; is that it is true.

  I' thinking we could learn something about the human mind with the right research.
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  frankiespeakin

  Where a safe place that you can download about an hour or so worth of this music, I think this may also be used in meditation with good results.