For ancient lyre music, check out the channels @AthanKleopas and @copperleaves. The beautiful rendition of the Seikilos Epitaph used here is from @YKband.
Oh, I totally thought this was Peter Pringle’s rendition! If you haven’t heard him, check him out!! Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian makes me cry every single time I hear it.
"Hey man, I just came up with this hymn to commemorate the Fruit Goddess, And I just wanted to run it by you." "Yeah man, Go for it." . . . "YOOO THAT'S SO GOOD DUDE, YOU HAVE *GOT* TO WRITE THAT DOWN"
> «While many of the psalms contain attributions to the name of King David and other Biblical figures including Asaph, the sons of Korah, and Solomon, David's authorship is not accepted by most modern Bible scholars, who instead attribute the composition of the psalms to various authors writing between the 9th and 5th centuries BC.»
"Close your eyes and pretend you're Caesar hearing it for the first time" (Song plays) "Get a distortion pedal and start blastbeating. To the lions you go!"
Humans have been as smart as today for tens of thousands of years before the beginning of history. Just imagine of how many things they did... How much music, philosophy, ideals, conflicts, stories, myths, art, knowledge and culture. Everything was lost, gone forever. Can we even say we know ourselves as a species anymore?
@@albertofuzzi7200well it is right and wrong in same way! More like humans have the ability to collect and increase the knowledge! Yeah in a point our capability and abilities are same but in other hand we growing always with every generation!
The Hurrian Hymn tablet was found in the ancient city of Ugarit, now located in Syria, and it has been interpreted and covered differently by many artists. My favorite interpretation is the Syrian pianist and composer Malek Jandali's "Echoes from Ugarit". Check it out.
Metal band Nightwish included the Hurrian Hymn in their album Human :||: Nature. Track title is All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World: Anthropocene.
It's the earliest *known* written song. More likely than not there are older ones that haven't survived, or perhaps just haven't been found/excavated yet.
@@Mdd099 I don't think you quite got my point... He says it's the oldest song ever written; my point is that's more likely false than true. There's almost never a definitive "first" in archaeology, since we only find a small selection of all human products to have ever been produced. Hence, we can only speak of "first currently known" or "first discovered to date" a lot of the time. In fact, some objects (like textiles made from animal or plant fibers) survive the ages much worse than others (like clay tablets and pottery, or bones), which introduces a notable survivorship bias into the oldest artifacts we find and shapes our view of ancient history. For all we know, the first recorded song could have been some folk tune dyed or scribbled onto an animal hide in some novel proprietary notation system around, say, 100,000 BC.
the song of seikilos still makes me feel things more than 2000 years later. For those that don’t know it’s a funerary hymn that goes “shine while you live take not a moment to grieve for life is fleeting and time extracts its due” like damn. makes me remember to appreciate life and seize the day, and hold on to the fleeting joys of each moment n’ shit.
My feed contains highly interesting and scholarly stuff, but your channel always gets top marks for being seemingly completely random, yet insanely interesting. 😅
My ancient Amorite is a bit rusty, but I believe the lyrics roughly translate to: “Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you…”
Wow, big fan. If it’s not too much trouble, I would love to know your inspiration for that piece. Also, as someone trying to break into the music industry, what tips do you have to get my songs off the ground and into people’s ears?
If anyone is looking for the rendition of the first song, it’s “A Hurrian Cult Song from Ancient Ugarit” By AtonalBrainHarvest on CZcams. (Unsure if it’s the original creator or not) The video in the background is “The Sumerian Silver Lyre” by Peter Pringle.
Australian aboriginals use "song lines" to navigate. they are songs passed down for possibly tens of thousands of years that they sing to find their way through the outback... of course, again, not written down. It was passed on through repetition. Many have been lost as a result of colonisation.
The beautiful hurrian hymn you heard in the beginning, was just one of several musical masterpieces, composed by the maestros of Ugarit, urhiya and puhiya. It is a shame how much Syrian history is neglected.
@johndododoe1411 According to Wikipedia (which I grant you is not infallible, but neither is this video) the Seikolos Epitaph actually dates to the first or second century A.D.
I sang a version of the song from the Seikolos epitaph in a performance of the play The Trojan Women. The director said it was old but i didnt know it was the second oldest written piece. Thanks for this!
I love the Seikilos Epitaph because in a nutshell, the lyrics are “be happy, for you are alive”, and I find it beautiful and poetic that such an old song of all time has such a message that is so fundamentally, joyfully human.
Define English.... Our version of English is relatively new only a few centuries old, even Tudor period English is much different, a century or two earlier is somewhat more difficult to decipher unless you have been studying Old English.
Mirie it is dates from the 13th century CE, Greensleeves is grossly attributed to Henry VIII as its composer in the early 16th century, its notation and lyrics differ significantly from the few love poems he did write in his youth. Both of these songs are greatly distant in their lyrics and the forms of English in which they were composed, Mirie still uses a great deal of words of Anglo-Saxon origin in its composition, honestly I could only understand half the words in it despite having an avid interest in Early Music for twenty years now.
The feeling that these things give. How will civilisations in a fewhundred or even thousand years see our music? Or will there even be someone to listen?
The original text of the old Bible was written as a song, 3300 years ago at Mount Sinai. As well as there being songs like the song of the red sea, which is a song to show gratitude to G-D for splitting the red sea. I'm not correcting you, just sharing info.
The key difference here is that the two songs in the video are _annotated._ They have not just the words, but also the musical notes. Without that, we might know that a piece of poetry was actually a song, but we have no real indication as to what it sounded like.
@@matterhorn731 The old Bible has what we call gematria, it is small annotations that depict pitch and tune, it is basically a music sheet on top of the words, and if you go to a Shul (Jewish Synagogue)on Tuesday, Thursday and on Saturday they read the old Bible in the original tune to this day. Quite incredible.
@@meirbookatz8304 Very interesting! (Though I thought gematria was just the association of certain letters with certain numbers? Or is it based on that?) Do you know when the earliest remaining examples of this form of notation date to? My understanding is that that's the real claim to fame for the Hurrian Hymn and the Seikilos epitaph: the _writings themselves_ are so old (~1400 BCE and probably 1st-2nd century CE, respectively). There could potentially be some earlier surviving songs from later writings or from oral traditions, but these are the earliest examples of _actual written notation_ that we have today.
That's because Christians associated certain kinds of music with Pagans and intentionally avoided those kinds of music, so music was taken in a fundamentally different direction. As well, we have different scales in western culture today than back then
Mesopotamian music would have been the direct influence on Greek music (you can already see the use of the heptatonic scale), and at its height the Greek cultural sphere extended from Gibraltar to northern India. Much of the Roman, Arab, and Persian musical traditions derive a lot from the ancient Greek tradition, but in the late medieval period Europeans develop harmony and the Western musical tradition begins to greatly diverge from the rest of Mediterranean and West Asian music.
Well I mean the hymns in vedas can be considered songs and they would be the oldest song ever as the vedas are approximately 3500 years old if not older. But that is controversial as well because I mean... Can you really consider a hymn a song?
Holy shit that is so cool. Both sound great, and I realllly expected them to sound strange. But I thought there was a huge difference in like, the way people denote music globally and it would be sounding super different if it wasn't "read" in today's western octave system? I'm not a musician at all but like, don't Indian ppl for example have a very different system that would make the written instructions sound completely different because the increment between one tone and the next is not equidistant or sth like that? Can we *actually* translate millenia old musical notation with any hope of accuracy like this if globally the systems vary so widely even at the same point in time?? 😮 My mind is blown
I'm not sure if that's Peter Pringle in the first video, but I love his recreations of ancient music on instruments that I think he's reconstructed for that purpose
I wonder how those modern musicians feel when playing a piece of art as old as those. As a musician myself, playing far older pieces has always made me feel both sad and amazed. Like, I’m playing notes that were written by a now-dead person with family who loved them, yet I’m also taken aback at how beautiful some of these pieces still sound, considering the very different time period they were written in.
The Seikilos Epitaph is actually from the about 200 C.E., not B.C.E., so another 3-4 centuries later. But also thinking about that song will never fail to make me emotional. It was most likely written down on a grave marker for someone Seikilos held dear. And even now some 1800 years later, we still sing his song. All this time later, his love for this one person persists, kept alive by musicians.
The channel hochelaga actually uses one interpretation of the song (somewhat informed by more recent but still ancient music from the same region) as the intro music for its videos.
For ancient lyre music, check out the channels @AthanKleopas and @copperleaves. The beautiful rendition of the Seikilos Epitaph used here is from @YKband.
Woow dude. I'm amazed. How do you even manage to get all that information?
Maybe the first song written on earth. The Angel's of GOD might disagree with you.
Oh, I totally thought this was Peter Pringle’s rendition! If you haven’t heard him, check him out!! Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian makes me cry every single time I hear it.
@@klclaire1118 I'm a long time fan of Peter Pringle's!
Heilung did a beautiful rendition of the Hymn to Nikkal as well!
shit banged so hard they had to write it down
"Hey man, I just came up with this hymn to commemorate the Fruit Goddess, And I just wanted to run it by you."
"Yeah man, Go for it."
. . .
"YOOO THAT'S SO GOOD DUDE, YOU HAVE *GOT* TO WRITE THAT DOWN"
WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
More like carve it down
@@milokiss8276"yo... how do i write"
@@LaggingGamesayo Theophilus put that shit on rewind and repeat
I wish these musicians could know that there are people playing their songs thousands of years in the future.
I’m wondering about how long David feels after being robbed like this😂
@@jobefoxworth2325 I was about to say.... Lol. King David wrote a whole book of bangers in Psalms LONG before this.
Definitely not going to happen to any recent music coming out.. people don't write for longevity anymore..
What a gai'e thought
> «While many of the psalms contain attributions to the name of King David and other Biblical figures including Asaph, the sons of Korah, and Solomon, David's authorship is not accepted by most modern Bible scholars, who instead attribute the composition of the psalms to various authors writing between the 9th and 5th centuries BC.»
The last melody sounds pretty dope
It quite is. It was written on a tombstone, by Seikilos to Euterpe (it's not known if that was his partner, or mother, cause the way it's written)
Honestly a bop
I believe Civilization 6 used it as the main theme for Greek civilization. It is quite the bop indeed (then again, Civ 6 music is usually pretty good)
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I hope you’re talking about the last melody from the video and not a different last melody
When my dad says "back in my day", he makes it sound like it was when that song was written! 😂
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Back in my day, we walked many moons to the temple of Marduk, uphill both ways.
@@MrHodoAstartesBack in my day when the heaves was seperated from the earth
Bro is from the Age of Gods 💀
@@MrHodoAstarteswhile fighting sea people the whole time!
Hank Green did an acoustic cover of the last one in like 2014. It’s actually amazing.
Wow thanks for bringing this video to my attention! It's really amazing
Exactly what I thought when I saw this lol. Now to go rewatch it
He doesn't know shits, he's a rainbow flag gang. 😂
Wow, I never knew the original was electric, the ancient people were far more advanced than I ever thought possible.
Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep.
That moment when the Epic of Gilgamesh talks about "the old days when the ovens were first lit and bread was first baked".
Its honestly very beautiful and calming. I could definitely see this being played around a campfire after a meal.
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Fr, the vibes would be amazing. I could really use the level of grass-touching that would be
Likely played during planting and harvest in both religious and folk settings
It reminds me of like a mountain base camp
"Close your eyes and pretend you're Caesar hearing it for the first time"
(Song plays)
"Get a distortion pedal and start blastbeating. To the lions you go!"
LMAO
Caesar who wasn't even born yet:
if i was caesar, i would think about roman empire every day (even though it was made after him)
@@heatheretaithahato be fair he probably thought he was the king shit everyday to at least his last day. He was thinking about his empire.
@@heatheretaithahato be fair he probably thought he was the king shit everyday to at least his last day. He was thinking about his empire.
Isn’t it amazing we can still share something with ancient people? It gives me shivers hearing it
Yeah well the ancient people didn't ice spice bleeding their ears out
At the Smithsonian they have a display with a mammoth ivory flute, and they have audio playing of someone using an exact recreation.
Humans have been as smart as today for tens of thousands of years before the beginning of history. Just imagine of how many things they did... How much music, philosophy, ideals, conflicts, stories, myths, art, knowledge and culture. Everything was lost, gone forever. Can we even say we know ourselves as a species anymore?
@@albertofuzzi7200well it is right and wrong in same way! More like humans have the ability to collect and increase the knowledge!
Yeah in a point our capability and abilities are same but in other hand we growing always with every generation!
I'm gonna take a guess that that's Peter Pringle playing at the beginning. Go and hear the epic of gilgamesh from the guy, hauntingly beautiful.
Yes! Was stoked to see Pringle, his work is excellent
He's the Gilgamesh song guy too right?
he is probably a very amazing man but i can't get over his last name being pringle. that's like a famous artist being named John "Issac" Newton
@@glizzygulper8948 For some reason he always looked like a Pringle to me.
Like, every time I see him I'm like "yep, his name is definitely Pringle."
@@mfaizsyahmi ud reeeeeeeaa
Hurrian songs ❤️ written in my home city in Ugarit, modern-day Lattakia, Syria 🙏🏻💛
What Caesar?
_Sectus_ Caesar?
_Lucius_ Caesar?
Our favorite assassin's victim wasn't alive in 200 B.C.
There are more than one?😂
You can hear a song that was written before you were born
@@sinistrality @kahidris got it. 🤣
@@sinistralitybruh ceasar was one of those "born in the wrong generation" kids. Constantly complaining bout how bad music in 0bc is compared to 200bc
Caesar Zeppeli
The Hurrian Hymn tablet was found in the ancient city of Ugarit, now located in Syria, and it has been interpreted and covered differently by many artists. My favorite interpretation is the Syrian pianist and composer Malek Jandali's "Echoes from Ugarit". Check it out.
Given the surviving examples of Greek and Roman art and literature, I can't imagine the great works of music that have been lost
Metal band Nightwish included the Hurrian Hymn in their album Human :||: Nature. Track title is All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World: Anthropocene.
The stone tablet was found in the ancient city of ugarit near latakia city on the the syrian coast
2nd one sounds modern. Crazy how music truly is universal
"Pretend you're Caesar"
Me: *Starts coughing up blood*
It's the earliest *known* written song. More likely than not there are older ones that haven't survived, or perhaps just haven't been found/excavated yet.
It’s almost like he said that in the video (spoiler alert; he did)
@@Mdd099 I don't think you quite got my point... He says it's the oldest song ever written; my point is that's more likely false than true. There's almost never a definitive "first" in archaeology, since we only find a small selection of all human products to have ever been produced. Hence, we can only speak of "first currently known" or "first discovered to date" a lot of the time.
In fact, some objects (like textiles made from animal or plant fibers) survive the ages much worse than others (like clay tablets and pottery, or bones), which introduces a notable survivorship bias into the oldest artifacts we find and shapes our view of ancient history. For all we know, the first recorded song could have been some folk tune dyed or scribbled onto an animal hide in some novel proprietary notation system around, say, 100,000 BC.
@@tiskbubbles4688 my bad, I must have misread your comment.
I thought it was implicit
the song of seikilos still makes me feel things more than 2000 years later. For those that don’t know it’s a funerary hymn that goes
“shine while you live
take not a moment to grieve
for life is fleeting
and time extracts its due”
like damn. makes me remember to appreciate life and seize the day, and hold on to the fleeting joys of each moment n’ shit.
Honestly, you're the worthiest channel on youtube
Yooo that last one. I needa hear it more
My feed contains highly interesting and scholarly stuff, but your channel always gets top marks for being seemingly completely random, yet insanely interesting. 😅
That lady playing that circular instrument looked so happy about it
My ancient Amorite is a bit rusty, but I believe the lyrics roughly translate to:
“Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you…”
NOOOOO
Whyyyyyyy?!!!?!
If Caesar heard that second song, the song was over 100 years old by the time he heard it.
Listening to this after a long, tiring, successful (or not) day of hunting around a campfire with your lads must be such a vibe
I actually wrote the first song, please take this video down before I send a copyright strike.
Might want to take this down before someone finds you and starts running medical experiments to find out how you lived so long. 😂
what about the song the Israelites sang after crossing the red sea? check your dates.
@@adamodeo9320Did we write down the melody or only the lyrics?
its in the bible@@johndododoe1411
Wow, big fan. If it’s not too much trouble, I would love to know your inspiration for that piece. Also, as someone trying to break into the music industry, what tips do you have to get my songs off the ground and into people’s ears?
If anyone is looking for the rendition of the first song, it’s “A Hurrian Cult Song from Ancient Ugarit”
By AtonalBrainHarvest on CZcams. (Unsure if it’s the original creator or not)
The video in the background is “The Sumerian Silver Lyre” by Peter Pringle.
Maaaan,only 3424 B.C kids would understand the nostalgia 😢
Well, the oldest one we have found.
So...we not gonna talk about the entire book of Psalms then...? Lol
That last line in that last song gives me goosebumps
Do we know when the first griddy was ever hitten?
I'M THRILLINGLY EXCITED THAT YOU'VE DONE A VIDEO ON THIS I LOVE ASSYRIOLOGY THE HURRIAN HYMN IS ON ALL OF MY PLAYLISTS
Oldest melody to be written down that has survived
Pretend to be ceasar? I dont wanna be stabbed man and have a salad named after me
The oldest one to be written down... that we know of. Certainly many things have yet to be discovered (or have already been lost).
The Hurrian hymn is beautiful.
Awesome fact, my mom had this play at her wedding this last year! It was the most beautiful thing 💖
Gonna really shake up my Spotify wrapped this year. 😂
Australian aboriginals use "song lines" to navigate. they are songs passed down for possibly tens of thousands of years that they sing to find their way through the outback... of course, again, not written down. It was passed on through repetition. Many have been lost as a result of colonisation.
Do you know about the whisper game? That's why those don't count
The odds of them being even remotely like the ones used thousands of years ago are basically zero
This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
The beautiful hurrian hymn you heard in the beginning, was just one of several musical masterpieces, composed by the maestros of Ugarit, urhiya and puhiya. It is a shame how much Syrian history is neglected.
The 200 bc one is very nice
Ikr!
Ikr such chill vibes
@@-Teague- YES! I'll definitely look it up
200 BC would be Gaius Julius Caesar's great-great grandfather (Sextus Julius Caesar) or Pharaoh Ptolemy V or Hannibal the General .
@johndododoe1411 According to Wikipedia (which I grant you is not infallible, but neither is this video) the Seikolos Epitaph actually dates to the first or second century A.D.
I would say oldest *known* written down. There may be others we don't know about
That Hymn is really beautiful despite being so simple
Music is the gift from the universe. Good music can uplift the day and make us happy.
A cool interpretation of this song is "Nikkal" by Heilung. I recommend checking it out! :)
In Indian Classical Music, prior to 200 BC, we used to sing Dhruvpad back then..so..
And here comes the Indian to take credit for everything.
Sure you did
I sang a version of the song from the Seikolos epitaph in a performance of the play The Trojan Women. The director said it was old but i didnt know it was the second oldest written piece. Thanks for this!
I love the Seikilos Epitaph because in a nutshell, the lyrics are “be happy, for you are alive”, and I find it beautiful and poetic that such an old song of all time has such a message that is so fundamentally, joyfully human.
I wondered if Seikolos would come up!
it's really nice
This is great! I'm so happy YT suggested you! I've liked and subscribed ❤
I want to hear ANYTHING you care to teach me, Sir. As much as I possibly can. Keep 'em coming! ❤😁
Instructions not clear, I've been stabbed multiple times.
Good joke🤣🤣
Question, what was the first song written in English that wasn’t a translation?
Define English.... Our version of English is relatively new only a few centuries old, even Tudor period English is much different, a century or two earlier is somewhat more difficult to decipher unless you have been studying Old English.
Sumer is incumen in, Miri it is while sumer ilast and greensleeves are very old so Maybe some of them
Mirie it is dates from the 13th century CE, Greensleeves is grossly attributed to Henry VIII as its composer in the early 16th century, its notation and lyrics differ significantly from the few love poems he did write in his youth. Both of these songs are greatly distant in their lyrics and the forms of English in which they were composed, Mirie still uses a great deal of words of Anglo-Saxon origin in its composition, honestly I could only understand half the words in it despite having an avid interest in Early Music for twenty years now.
It's too old to be English
Beowulf? idk if it was a song but a poem kinda counts.
The feeling that these things give. How will civilisations in a fewhundred or even thousand years see our music? Or will there even be someone to listen?
I had to replay them both 10 times before they settle in. Now I like them.
The Song of the Sea from Exodus 15 in the Bible (dated around 1200 BC) may be perhaps the second oldest song that was written down.
The original text of the old Bible was written as a song, 3300 years ago at Mount Sinai. As well as there being songs like the song of the red sea, which is a song to show gratitude to G-D for splitting the red sea. I'm not correcting you, just sharing info.
I figured somebody knew where the Bible fell into this and was looking for this comment. Thank you.
The key difference here is that the two songs in the video are _annotated._ They have not just the words, but also the musical notes. Without that, we might know that a piece of poetry was actually a song, but we have no real indication as to what it sounded like.
@@matterhorn731 The old Bible has what we call gematria, it is small annotations that depict pitch and tune, it is basically a music sheet on top of the words, and if you go to a Shul (Jewish Synagogue)on Tuesday, Thursday and on Saturday they read the old Bible in the original tune to this day. Quite incredible.
@@meirbookatz8304 Very interesting! (Though I thought gematria was just the association of certain letters with certain numbers? Or is it based on that?) Do you know when the earliest remaining examples of this form of notation date to? My understanding is that that's the real claim to fame for the Hurrian Hymn and the Seikilos epitaph: the _writings themselves_ are so old (~1400 BCE and probably 1st-2nd century CE, respectively). There could potentially be some earlier surviving songs from later writings or from oral traditions, but these are the earliest examples of _actual written notation_ that we have today.
@@matterhorn731 Yes sorry, my mistake that's exactly what gematria is, what I am referring to is called trope or cantillation. It dates to ~1350 BCE.
It's so beautiful, I would love this during a campfire. Give me the Hurrian Hymn
I just got back from a walk listening to this song... this is the first short that pops up.
Internet gods? Can you hear me up there in the Cloud?
First song written was probably a caveman trying to explain to another caveman how his mammoth sounded pulling out of the cave
please tell me you're joking
I wish it were so, but many people's definition of ancient history is dubious at best..
It is funny that theses songs don’t sound nothing like “Western.” Actually, they resemble something we would associate with eastern culture.
That's because Christians associated certain kinds of music with Pagans and intentionally avoided those kinds of music, so music was taken in a fundamentally different direction. As well, we have different scales in western culture today than back then
Mesopotamian music would have been the direct influence on Greek music (you can already see the use of the heptatonic scale), and at its height the Greek cultural sphere extended from Gibraltar to northern India. Much of the Roman, Arab, and Persian musical traditions derive a lot from the ancient Greek tradition, but in the late medieval period Europeans develop harmony and the Western musical tradition begins to greatly diverge from the rest of Mediterranean and West Asian music.
@@digitaljanus Arab and persian music is derived from ancient semitic traditions
Heilung (norse band) has a cover of this called Nikkal, its very good
The thing i like the most about this hymn is that it's about the ancient times, really puts history into perspective
Well I mean the hymns in vedas can be considered songs and they would be the oldest song ever as the vedas are approximately 3500 years old if not older. But that is controversial as well because I mean... Can you really consider a hymn a song?
There are mesopotamian hymns way older than the vedas
Okay, I didn’t expect to enjoy the Caesar thought exercise as much as I did.
Shoutout to Michael Levy for his fantastic renditions of this piece of music
Holy shit that is so cool. Both sound great, and I realllly expected them to sound strange.
But I thought there was a huge difference in like, the way people denote music globally and it would be sounding super different if it wasn't "read" in today's western octave system? I'm not a musician at all but like, don't Indian ppl for example have a very different system that would make the written instructions sound completely different because the increment between one tone and the next is not equidistant or sth like that? Can we *actually* translate millenia old musical notation with any hope of accuracy like this if globally the systems vary so widely even at the same point in time?? 😮 My mind is blown
The last one sounds nicely cheery and bright.
I loved the first one, sounds a lot like some beautiful Gregorian chant. ❤
I'm not sure if that's Peter Pringle in the first video, but I love his recreations of ancient music on instruments that I think he's reconstructed for that purpose
I wonder how those modern musicians feel when playing a piece of art as old as those. As a musician myself, playing far older pieces has always made me feel both sad and amazed. Like, I’m playing notes that were written by a now-dead person with family who loved them, yet I’m also taken aback at how beautiful some of these pieces still sound, considering the very different time period they were written in.
People are people. Even the guys thousands of years ago were still just people.
👍 An excellent and amazing video. First song is so beautiful. Thank you very much for sharing your wonderful video.
"Close yout eyes and pretend that you're Caesar."
"Brutus, et tu?"
The only sad part is that there still probably a lot of songs older than those that were lost to time.
Oldest KNOWN song
“The Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal”. I remember hearing about this in Lemmino’s vid. Eerie, but so powerful!
Peter Pringle is really awesome. He plays a lot of ancient songs.
I dont think we realize how cool it is to be in a time and place where you can have history like this at your fingertips. Its so cool❤
The Seikilos Epitaph is actually from the about 200 C.E., not B.C.E., so another 3-4 centuries later.
But also thinking about that song will never fail to make me emotional. It was most likely written down on a grave marker for someone Seikilos held dear. And even now some 1800 years later, we still sing his song. All this time later, his love for this one person persists, kept alive by musicians.
I thought it was Cher's If I Could Turn Back Time when she teleported to 14000 BC
I was about to flip until you brought up The Epitaph of Seikilos
I heard about the hurrian hymn but I always wondered what the oldest song we knew how to play sound like thanks bro
I play the lyre! It makes me proud to carry on one of the most ancient human traditions and arts
In music class we actually learned and sung the seikilos song, we got to know it as one of the first songs to ever been written down
I was vibing with that second song pretty hard
I somehow feel so nostalgic when hearing the last song, the greek one.
It somehow feels like home, if it makes sense.
Dude, the people who study old music are insane. It's soooo cooool when you get a chance to listen they talking or playing that stuff.
This is a shot in the dark but can you please organise your shorts into playlists
I love your videos!!
I’m happy the second one sounds like it’d score good on a video game where you play as Ceasar
Thank you for teaching me two facts I've never even thought of researching.
The channel hochelaga actually uses one interpretation of the song (somewhat informed by more recent but still ancient music from the same region) as the intro music for its videos.
"Close your eyes and pretend your Caesar."
I always do.
Peter Pringle is a real hero in music history
Some guy named Ibni-Marduk hearing the Hurrian Hymn for the first time: “Ayo, this shit slaps!”