The oldest song

in music •  7 years ago 

The Hurrians were masterful ceramists.
The Hurrians had a reputation in metallurgy.
The Mitanni were closely associated with horses.

Among the Hurrian texts from Ugarit are the oldest known instances of written music, dating from c. 1400 BCE.[5] Among these fragments are found the names of four Hurrian composers, Tapšiẖuni, Puẖiya(na), Urẖiya, and Ammiya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_songs

The complete song is one of about 36 such hymns in cuneiform writing, found on fragments of clay tablets excavated in the 1950s from the Royal Palace at Ugarit (present day Ras Shamra, Syria),[5] in a stratum dating from the fourteenth century BC,[6] but is the only one surviving in substantially complete form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrians

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I love posts like yours. Sometimes I´m getting tired of all those "Listen, I can sing too" and "Please upvote my new song" posts (they are all ok, but the flood of them makes me skip them - nearly - all). And then I´m happy to come upon things like you are writing about. I´m following you now! Enjoy your day! Rolf from CZ

Very nice