Listen to the oldest song in the world…a 3400 year old Sumerian hymn…

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  • July 11, 2014 at 10:02 pm #1527
    nittany ram
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    http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/the-oldest-song-in-the-world.html

    July 11, 2014 at 10:11 pm #1529
    zn
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    July 12, 2014 at 2:18 pm #1578
    zn
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    [this post is really pasted together fragments from wikipedia]

    The oldest incomplete annotated piece of ancient music is a Hurrian song, a hymn in Ugaritic cuneiform syllabic writing which was dedicated to Nikkal. The Hurrian hymn to Nikkal (also known as the Hurrian cult hymn or A Zaluzi to the Gods, or simply h.6), making it the oldest surviving substantially complete work of notated music in the world. It is clearly a religious text concerning offerings to the goddess Nikkal, wife of the moon god.

    Nikkal, full name Nikkal-wa-Ib, is a goddess of Ugarit/Canaan and later of Phoenicia. She is a goddess of orchards, whose name means “Great Lady and Fruitful” and derives from Akkadian / West Semitic “´Ilat ´Inbi” meaning “Goddess of Fruit”. De Moor translates Ugaritic

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