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#1 2010-11-25 14:55:07
- Karmajampa
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Oldest known melody C1400 BC
Get out your 2.0 'C' tuned Shakuhachi to watch this with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBhB9gRnIHE
For information about the piece and its current renddition go here'
http://news.hitsquad.com/Science/The_Ol … y_c_1400BC
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#2 2010-11-25 15:16:46
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Re: Oldest known melody C1400 BC
That, I would say, is "highly speculative". Which is OK because the music is nice. But we don't even know what the music of Buddy Bolden sounded like and he was a jazz artist who played only a few years before the next generation made actual recordings. If people want to fantasize about music of the distant past and the result is modern music I suppose that's OK. Nobody has the energy of someone from 3400 years ago, times have changed.
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#3 2010-11-25 15:43:04
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Re: Oldest known melody C1400 BC
Quite an embellishment on a simple sequence of notes, seems to me but ....Ho Hum.
Fun to play along with.
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#4 2010-11-25 15:55:48
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Re: Oldest known melody C1400 BC
Pythagoras had a lot of interesting theories about music, wonder if anyone has "reconstructed" them?
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#5 2010-11-25 16:15:47
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Re: Oldest known melody C1400 BC
I have just played a flute from the Czech Republic, no holes other than the lower opening, a fipple and very responsive to produce the harmonic progression, so you can play it with one hand, altering the bottom opening to obtain more of a chromatic tuning, while playing a drum or your girlfriend with the other hand.
What I thought interesting about that piece of music is that some form of a score had been recorded somehow. That is, how did the melody as such, look on the clay tablets, was is like some score or was it more like a math equation ?
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#6 2010-12-09 10:55:39
- Rick Riekert
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Re: Oldest known melody C1400 BC
Tairaku wrote:
Pythagoras had a lot of interesting theories about music, wonder if anyone has "reconstructed" them?
The remarkable David Hykes claims to base his music on Pythagorean notions. I'm familiar with what little we know about Pythagoras and have heard Hykes and his Harmonic Choir many times, but confess I have to take Hykes at his word.
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