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Peter Pringle
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SEVEN DAYS SINCE I LAST SAW MY LOVE
There are dozens of ancient Egyptian songs and hymns for which we have the words, but not the music. Unfortunately, the ancient Egyptians did not have a formal system of notation so we can only guess at what the melodies for the songs might have been. We do know, however, quite a lot about the instruments they had because many of them have survived, while others can be seen illustrated on the walls of tombs and temples.
I built the harp you see in this video several years ago, made a couple of videos with it, and then moved on to other things. I recently decided to dust it off and play it again. It is what is called an “arched harp”, known to the ancient Egyptians as a “djedjet”. Unlike modern harps, these instruments were C-shaped, and did not have a front supporting pillar.
The words of the song in this video are taken from the seventh song of a set of love songs written on papyrus scrolls in the Egyptian language of the New Kingdom about 3,500 years ago. The scrolls are part of the Chester Beatty collection, and are currently housed in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin.
The temple you see at the beginning of the video is that of the goddess Hathor in Dendera, Egypt. Hathor was one of the most popular and widely worshipped deities of ancient Egypt. She had the facial features of a cow and the body of a woman. She was recognized as the goddess of love, beauty, fertility and music, as well as the protector of women.
I built the harp you see in this video several years ago, made a couple of videos with it, and then moved on to other things. I recently decided to dust it off and play it again. It is what is called an “arched harp”, known to the ancient Egyptians as a “djedjet”. Unlike modern harps, these instruments were C-shaped, and did not have a front supporting pillar.
The words of the song in this video are taken from the seventh song of a set of love songs written on papyrus scrolls in the Egyptian language of the New Kingdom about 3,500 years ago. The scrolls are part of the Chester Beatty collection, and are currently housed in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin.
The temple you see at the beginning of the video is that of the goddess Hathor in Dendera, Egypt. Hathor was one of the most popular and widely worshipped deities of ancient Egypt. She had the facial features of a cow and the body of a woman. She was recognized as the goddess of love, beauty, fertility and music, as well as the protector of women.
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ENKIDU And The Woman SHAMKAT
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This is one of my favorite episodes from the Babylonian EPIC OF GILGAMESH. I think it needs to be pointed out that the story of Gilgamesh originated in Sumer, and we do have cuneiform tablets of parts of it in Sumerian, but most of what we know comes from cuneiform tablets written much later in Akkadian and Old Babylonian. These are Semitic languages (related to modern Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic a...
Namárië - "Galadriel's Lament" - J.R.R. Tolkien
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This is a song that I posted a few years ago, but it was taken down because of a copyright dispute. I didn’t think my performance was particularly good, so I made no attempt to settle the dispute or to put the video back up on UA-cam. In the intervening years I have received a couple of hundred inquiries from people wondering what happened to the video, and asking me to put it back. Since the d...
THE EXALTATION OF INANNA in Sumerian
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THE EXALTATION OF INANNA was written in Sumerian by the daughter of Sargon The Great, the High Priestess of Inanna in the city of Ur, a woman by the name of Enheduanna. What you hear in this video, are the first twelve lines of the EXALTATION, sung in Sumerian, and accompanied on a scale replica of the remarkable “Gold Lyre of Ur”, discovered in the 1920’s by British archaeologist Sir Leonard W...
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
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Most fans of Arthurian legend will be familiar with the story of Sir Gawain And The Green Knight. This epic poem was written in the 1300’s, and there is a detailed article in Wikipedia for those who are not already acquainted with the tale. The author of the work wrote in a Middle English dialect that is incomprehensible to us today. What you hear in this video is a simplified adaptation for mo...
Lament For GILGAMESH, The Gold Lyre Of Ur
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This video is a performance of a Sumerian incantation and lament upon the death of the hero, GILGAMESH. For those who are interested, the translation and transliteration of the Sumerian cuneiform tablets can be found online at the University of Oxford website - The Electronic Text Corpus Of Sumerian Literature. “The Gold Lyre of Ur” was unearthed by archaeologist, Sir Leonard Woolley, in the 19...
ENKI'S HAILSTORM - sung in Sumerian
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The Sumerian god known as ENKI was god of the waters, and he is often depicted with rivers (possibly the Tigris and the Euphrates) flowing from his shoulders. Although the clay tablets on which this story of Enki was written are 5000 years old, they speak of a time even more remote, the time of creation, when the Sumerian gods (known as the Anunnaki) began organizing the world. The Sumerian tex...
CAEDMON'S HYMN on the Anglo-Saxon Lyre
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This is the earliest known poem in the English language, written in the 7th century, in what is called “Old English”. We know very little about the author, whose name was Caedmon, beyond what was said about him by “The Father of English History”, the monk known as The Venerable Bede (672 - 735 A.D.). The setting for my performance of the hymn is Odda’s Chapel in Gloucestershire, South West Engl...
THE LYRE OF MEGIDDO, Psalm 23 in Hebrew
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Seven years ago, I built a small lyre based on a 1200 BCE artifact that had been excavated in the ruins of the ancient city of Har Megiddo (aka “Armageddon”) in northern Israel. Once the instrument was completed, I posted a video of it to UA-cam and within a couple of weeks I received a request from THE MUSEUM OF MAKING MUSIC in Carlsbad, California, to allow them to have the instrument on temp...
Franz Schubert - THE HURDY-GURDY MAN
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This song was written by the Austrian composer, Franz Schubert, in 1827 the final song of a cycle called DIE WINTERREISE (The Winter’s Journey) and it is one of the most popular and enduring songs ever composed. Originally for voice and piano with words by the German poet, Wilhelm Müller, it tells the story of a wandering “drehleier” player, and was consequently called “Der Leiermann”. Schubert...
THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH (Tablet One)
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One of the exciting things about the EPIC OF GILGAMESH is that there are probably parts of it still waiting to be discovered, hidden beneath the sands of Mesopotamia. What you hear in this video is from TABLET ONE (a Prologue) of a series of cuneiform tablets recovered from the excavations of the library of the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh. The translator of the Epi...
THE SEDUCTION OF THE GODDESS INANA
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Although we do not know what this song sounded like when it was sung in ancient Sumer, we do have the words to the song, written in cuneiform on clay tablets nearly 5000 years ago, and I have used instruments (a three stringed Mesopotamian lute, and two reed flutes) that we know the Sumerians possessed. There are many songs, which the Sumerians called “tigi”, that have been translated by sumero...
THE SEA TURTLE (from the album Dancing Alone)
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This song was written as a lullaby, and is based upon a poem by the great Persian poet, Hafiz, who was born in the city of Shiraz in the year 1315. Hafiz wrote, “I am like a magnificent, magical, ocean turtle Setting aside his dazzling wings of blue Crawling upon your shores To bury the divine seed of verse.” This is one of fourteen songs from the album, DANCING ALONE, inspired by the works of ...
ONCE (From The Album DANCING ALONE)
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This song is from an album I made a called DANCING ALONE, which consists of 14 songs inspired by the works of 12th and 13th century Persian Sufi poets. I never released the album until now because I didn’t think anybody would be interested in it. I made a few copies as gifts for friends, and then stuck it on a shelf where it has been sleeping for the last few years. It is now available for down...
GILGAMESH LAMENT FOR ENKIDU
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Gilgamesh was king of the Sumerian city of Uruk in Southern Mesopotamia, some 5000 years ago. According to legend, he was a ruthless despot, so the gods created a friend for him, a kind of wild man called Enkidu, who was able to challenge him successfully in battle. This took Gilgamesh’s mind off oppressing his people, and he and Enkidu became inseparable friends. The two of them shared many re...
Alexander In India - Surbahar & Kithara
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Alexander In India - Surbahar & Kithara
The Death Of King Arthur (hurdy-gurdy)
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The Death Of King Arthur (hurdy-gurdy)
"THE COLD SONG" played on the Haken Continuum
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"THE COLD SONG" played on the Haken Continuum
The Haken Continuum Meets The Chinese Guzheng
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The Haken Continuum Meets The Chinese Guzheng
DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME - Theremin & Voice
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DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME - Theremin & Voice
Haken Continuum 88-key Keyboard Extension
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Haken Continuum 88-key Keyboard Extension
The Haken Continuum Keyboard Extension
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The Haken Continuum Keyboard Extension
bro woke up and choose to cook
Unique! Bravo!
"History would remember them as -very good friends-"
HUDREEEEEEEEEAAAAHH
Echo of Thunder (⚡Hiyoshi Zukopin⚡)
Beautiful
This song is so nostalgic, it really brings me back
I can relate to this song. The memory of taste of bread in 80's and early 90's seem like thousands years away and in eastern Poland this bread was probably the best thing that happened to me when I was a kid. Specifically its crust, I have not tasted anything better in my life. Good, ancient times...
Cool song
A real toe tapper.
0:59 huuuudreeah (bronze age shiftpost)
I wish i had people the share this with lol
1:40
Iltam sumra rashupt ilatim -Ea nasir
Legendary Gilgamesh who sought the immortality of the Anunnaki throughout his life....
👍👍👍👍👍👍
What’s wild is that this story was ancient to the people we see as ancient
its crazy how a civilization so ancient talks about stuff even more ancient
по посадке видно рубки не будет
Ea nasir vibes
My more or less good Lyrics Transcription: Gilgaaa - aaa - aaa- aa- a-a -a -a -aaaamesh. Shamakba endu ishti ma naa aaaa a a ahi akar marbi indu kalaaaAaAaAa haa naa haaa ha haaasu. ihiitma mit-haa-risch ara-aa-aaaa-aa kich mabhar weeene ki shaka ra naaAaaAA mii- diii de ni sirta im muuu-rna kate-eeeEeEEeennda aa een te uubla tehee- ee- eeee- eee ma sha la laaaa ma wa maaaaaAaa kubrey Instrument: ubaaa rupttaaa lika-a-aaaa-aaa ma an nich nu shuk schu Schagi h iiii- iiii- iiiIIIiiii jenena na de schanu al le na aa denach-de aaa-aaaaaa! aaaaa-aaa-aaaa ub she sha lee-ee-eeee-eeee-eeeee-hi isch shi ma tuk gi nuk niii-iii-iii shik lass suuu - instrumental solo - mim wu gilgaaamesh it tal me wu. taaAaaaAAaaal wu masar ku shut- tu. en-shaa- shaa-'n-nuUUUudu gilga-aaaaAAaa-nn - solo chant ooh aahh- Spoken: "kal do lelek muruk. rim boru rak du. shim tem shou le luma. se schur da schuh. am me lutu." sheee hu gilga-aa-aaaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaaa-mesh 'it maaa ru raschub-bu EEhEEeeeehEeeeeheeheheheeheeeeeeeeedu! Merebedki! Sharusahaaa-aaaa-aahaAAHAAH di. hAaayet. Gibradi. Mushet u. balaa- dkiii kaaaAAaaAAAAaAAAAAA-aaaaahaaaaaaa shim. da nuUUUUuuuuuUu ussssuuu amaa utra na beee-eeeeeEEEeEEee-eechdik ruuu-ki naaa-ndu. it tish nu. ish- shaAAaaaAna ma n nan ash sha roti- uk- ki gilgaaAaAAAAAAAaaa mesh ik- kaaAAaaAAaaaguuu AAAaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAaaaaaaAAaAaaaaAA-AAaaA-AAAA mak kuuuUUuuuuUUuUUUuuuUUuuUuUuuUuUuUUuuuUuUUUUuUumaaaachh shaaaAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaa-aaAAAaaaa-aaaaaAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa- nuuu.
masterpiece
If she isn't vibing to this we ain't marryin
only 2000BC kids will remember this one
What incredible otherworldly talent and dedication to bring this to life for us to hear and imagine how it was.
Gilgamesch needs some pro tools to fix it
Sounds very persian. You am gear where Islam hyms are influenced by.
This tablet was found in Syria, and was composed a thousand years before the Persian Empire existed.
Zashu
Thank you LORD JESUS
𐏂𐎧𐎠𐎭𐎪𐎽 𐎥𐎮𐎱 𐏂𐎧𐎤 𐎵𐎨𐎣𐎤𐎮
If the human soul could have a hype song that sounded like a weeping sand storm, drenched in honey riding a swarm of locusts, then I think I could die a happy man win or lose. A-fuckin right it's gonna be Epic 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for this. Great tribute to the ancient epic of Gilgamesh.
Is this on Spotify????
Absolutely amazing ❤
This is hypnotic
Before the first ovens were lit… 🔥 our human story is so so ancient… it is deeply saddening that the knowledge of it is purposefully stripped from us.
'purposefully stripped from us' - knowledge about what? How can You know it's purposefully stripped from us?
Very good!
And what a mistake women made that accepted teaching from men! Your rendition is beautiful tho.
Nin-me-šarra <3 Magnificent
ea nasir's copper is some of the worst ive ever bought
everyone should learn about the ancient fertile crescent cultures really is the bread of the earth with so much history and modern day ideas comming from her whom.. very amazing to be able to listen to music 4,000 years ago.. Islam really raped alot of beautiful cultures...
UDREEEEEEAAAAAAAA USUUUUUUUURAAAAANEEEEEEEAAAAA
xD
good job
This is beautiful! I wonder, what musical mode is this? Sounds like Aonian?
awesome 😊
Pov: You and the boys are chilling in Ur and some guy pulls up with the lyre and drum and he says a god king died. So sad
I ask this out of curiosity. How do we know that this is how he played his hymn? And if he used this melody?
Song so fire they lit the first ovens in Babylon with it.
no puedo dejar de escuchar esto, rulombo lpm xD
Ok.. Im have some thought..