Ancient Music - Hurrian Hymn 7, 10, 16 and 30

Ancient Sumerians/Egyptians/Greeks -- a reconstruction of the few fragments of actual music that survived the ancient world, played on period instruments. Ancient music is music that developed in literate cultures, replacing prehistoric music. Ancient music refers to the various musical systems that were developed across various geographical regions such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, India, China, Greece and Rome. Ancient music is designated by the characterization of the basic audible tones and scales. It may have been transmitted through oral or written systems. Among the Hurrian texts from Ugarit are some of the oldest known instances of written music, dating from BC. A reconstructed hymn is replayed at the Urkesh webpage. Kilmer’s tentative decipherment of the cuneiform tablets from Ugarit indicate that the simultaneous sounding of different pitches may have been practiced very early, perhaps by 2000 BCE. Ancient Greek musicians developed their own robust system of musical notation. T