Отправлено: 18.04.10 10:33. Заголовок: Древнейшая из записанных мелодий, исполненная на лире

This unique video, features my arrangement of the 3400 year old "Hurrian Hymn no.6", which was discovered in Ugarit ,ancient northern Canaan (now modern Syria) in the early 1950s, and was preserved for 3400 years on a clay tablet, written in the Cuneiform text of the ancient Hurrian language - it is THE oldest written song yet known! Respect, to the amazing ancient culture of Syria...السلام عليكم

It is played here, on a replica of the ancient Kinnor Lyre from neighbouring Israel; an instrument almost tonally identical to the wooden asymmetric-shaped lyres played throughout the Middle East at this amazingly distant time...when the Pharaoh's still ruled ancient Egypt. (Unfortunately, the webcam I used to record this video is almost as ancient as the melody I am playing - apologies in advance, for the frankly crappy picture quality!!)

Краткий перевод на русский. На видео представлена мелодия, записанная 3400 лет назад и заново открытая в 50-х годах прошлого века. Родина мелодии находится на территории современной Сирии, где она и была найдена в виде клинописи на глиняных табличках. Исполняется на лире.