July 05, 2005

The Golden Lyre of Ur
posted by the quidnunc kid 19 years ago
  • Cherry ax dude. Can you play "Freebird" on it?
  • Shame we'll never really know what the music was like.
  • actually we have some idea. I have a midi file on hd that is a recreation of a tune from mesopotamia, some sort of hymn, but I'll be fucked if I remember what site I found it on. Oh, it could be this one. It's Hittite, but close enough.
  • Heh.. it seems I forgot that it was my own posting from this site. heheh. Marijuana doesn't ruin the memory... nooooo
  • Very interesting. But there's always got to be an element of doubt, hasn't there, about whether that was the sort of thing Abraham would really have heard? (Am I right in remembering that Ur (of the Chaldees) was where Abraham came from?)
  • What rubbish! Nothing you could dance to, unless you're keen on an almost catatonic gavotte. Don't bother to start up the mirrorball.
  • Yeah, I think so. I get confused between all those central asian cultures. From what I gather, the cuneiform text they translated was fairly detailed, I think only the time signature is not known and probably the exact string tuning. Yeah, there's always gonna be an element of doubt.
  • Nice post, quid!
  • I'd hittite.
  • /collapse
  • it seems I forgot that it was my own posting from this site fuck yeah
  • *Enter Pun Police, twists flashes' arm behind back, frogmarches him outta the room
  • Ur a lyre!!!
  • Bloody harpies...
  • with no strings attached!