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Peter Pringle
Приєднався 11 бер 2007
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
I was born in the wrong generation.
who’s here from smiling friends
Esto podría ser el heavy metal del 2000 a.c por la distorsión en el arpa
Huh, who would of thought a cartoon would teach me what a Theremin is...
0:59 makes my year! Thank you, sire.
"just keep soaking it"
This epic is of the world being flooded? The same as Noah's ark
I know there's no way they knew anything about planetary formation, but it's so cool to imagine that the line "When the earth was separated from the heavens" is in reference to that, it's such a badass line
if you know whats on the other side because you "know" or gods secrets. you will be surpised how much knowledge they had. or how much knowledge has leaked into our world back in days and got lost
4000 years later, this still holds up. And I really mean that.
You're the only guy I know who can take an ancient story about someone who fucked with a week long boner and make it sound epic. Serious question. How did you manage to sing this with a straight face without laughing?
This is so spiritual beyond the mind body and soul You have opened up my world for one of the oldest folk music of all time With love from Aotearoa New Zealand I shall hunt out your heavenly music one vinyl Kind regards Trasea🕊🌊⛰🌞🥰
Uruk has fallen. Thousands must listen. Millions even.
Historians be like: "They were close friends."
Akuma song
We don't realize how easy we got it huh
😊
🔻🇩🇪🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🍷🔻🔻🔻🇩🇪🔻
Iltam zumřa, řašupti elatim
The Rig Veda is older
Danke.
Эх... Помню как я это слушал в 2700 году до нашей эры в Уруке, раньше было лучше... 𒂬𒂷𒂸𒁖𒃷𒃸𒄐 𒂷 𒂸 𒄦 𒀀𒀁𒀂𒁀𒀭𒁍𒀪𒀫𒀼𒀸𒀹𒁇𒁑𒀖𒁄𒀕𒆠𒀔𒉢𒁓𒆷𒆠𒁖𒃷𒃸𒄐 😢(((
But Musical Instrument is Persian. " Setar"
Like this comment if you're still listening over four thousand years later!
Any Muslims out there ? Let me know down below 👇
Beautiful!
This is one of the best things I have ever heard in both textural and musical aspect
When the ooodreyiiiiiiaaa drops
Damn 2033 music is fire
Please release the full version, Mr. Pringle.
Living Cultural Memory - Music man and whatnot...
This has stirred my heart to tears ❤
Sounds like a violin.
Congratulations, what a beautiful honoring of this ancient culture which left its mark for eternity
If you are looking for a new idea, read an old book as they say
Yes, Smiling Friends enthusiasts, its a real instrument. And maybe it does summon aliens!
When I see 'freyr almighty' for me it would be 'God Almighty' And yet I get a translation of 'Almighty master'.
We are closer to Jesus and Cleopatra than Gilgamesh
You're an absolute legend, my friend, to us historians from all over the world. Please, make all the Epic of Gilgamesh for us. I'm praying you could!
Everything ends in ruins
Essa música me faz voltar no tempo em ERIDU, nas cidades de UR, URUK. Se eu vivi nesse tempo, essa canção foi apenas um gatilho...
This is epic
Why so short ? It's a shame the full version doesn't exist... i would listen to it...
Is there a Tablet 2 ? I need my next fix.
This is truly breathtaking. I would lov to get in touch with you as I would like to learn this instrument for my egyptian diaspora community in Ireland. I have been to the Chester Beatty museums many times and recently they had a Coptic exhibition actually. Please please do get in touch with me, I'd really like to learn this part of my heritage
It's always a pleasure to listen to thousands of years old music that starts with lyric "In those ancient times".
i dare you to make mdeval songs
that old ass akuma tech brought me here
Very low , dark and gloomy spirit . Terrible satanic world 😈😈😈 without GOD
Que belleza!. What a beauty! Thanks
First song ever?