Listen To The Oldest Song In The World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago (Video)

(N.Morgan) Music historians and fans a like are relishing in this discovered treasure of music, dating back over 3,400 years! The piece seems simple enough and I would have liked to hear it on a different instrument, but it is amazing that it has withstood the tests of time and this is a very important discovery, in early human development. In the early 1950s, archaeologists unearthed several clay tablets from the 14th century B.C.E.. Found, WFMU tells us, “in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit,” these tablets “contained cuneiform signs in the hurrian language,” which turned out to be the oldest known piece of music ever discovered, a 3,400 year-old cult hymn. Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, professor of Assyriology at the University of California, produced the interpretation above in 1972. (She describes how she arrived at the musical notation—in some technical detail—in this interview.) Since her initial publications in the 60s on the ancient Sumerian tablets and the musical theory found within, other scholars of the ancient world have published their own versions.





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