The World's Oldest Melody

[Jacob]

The Hurrian Hymn was discovered in the 1950s on a clay tablet inscribed with Cuneiform text. It's the oldest surviving melody and is over 3400 years old.

The hymn was discovered on a clay tablet in Ugarit, now part of modern-day Syria, and is dedicated the Hurrians' goddess of the orchards Nikkal.

The clay tablet text, which was discovered alongside around 30 other tablet fragments, specifies 9 lyre strings and the intervals between those strings – kind of like an ancient guitar tab.

But this is the only hymn that could be reconstructed – although the name of the composer is now lost.

http://www.classicfm.com/music-news/videos/oldest-song-melody/

[garbon]

Interesting.

What's that last sentence mean? Is that two unrelated thoughts put together?

[HVC]

That's actually really cool.

[HVC]

Interesting.

What's that last sentence mean? Is that two unrelated thoughts put together?

i took it to mean that all the tablets were written by the same person, but if he did sign them that part of the inscription was lost.

[garbon]

Interesting.

What's that last sentence mean? Is that two unrelated thoughts put together?

i took it to mean that all the tablets were written by the same person, but if he did sign them that part of the inscription was lost.

Ah got it. Makes sense.

[derspiess]

Hurrian music sucks. 

[Jacob]

Hurrian music sucks.

Your attempts at trolling suck.

[derspiess]

Your attempts to troll-shame me suck.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I've been to Ugarit.  Much less hot than Palmyra.

[The Brain]

I hear pieces of Kraftwerk's Spacelab in this hymn.

[Valmy]

I am glad we have gotten closer to finally determining which culture we appropriated music from.

But seriously that is fantastic. Ancient music is such a missing piece.