The Epic Of Gilgamesh In Sumerian
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2014-06-09に共有
Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, in Mesopotamia. The language that the Sumerians spoke was unrelated to the Semitic languages of their neighbors the Akkadians and Babylonians, and it was written in a syllabary (a kind of alphabet) called "cuneiform". By 2000 B.C., the language of Sumer had almost completely died out and was used only by scholars (like Latin is today). No one knows how it was pronounced because it has not been heard in 4000 years.
What you hear in this video are a few of the opening lines of part of the epic poem, accompanied only by a long-neck, three-string, Sumerian lute known as a "gish-gu-di". The instrument is tuned to G - G - D, and although it is similar to other long neck lutes still in use today (the tar, the setar, the saz, etc.) the modern instruments are low tension and strung with fine steel wire. The ancient long neck lutes (such as the Egyptian "nefer") were strung with gut and behaved slightly differently. The short-neck lute known as the "oud" is strung with gut/nylon, and its sound has much in common with the ancient long-neck lute although the oud is not a fretted instrument and its strings are much shorter (about 25 inches or 63 cm) as compared to 32 inches (82 cm) on a long-neck instrument.
For anyone interested in these lutes, I highly recommend THE ARCHAEOMUSICOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST by Professor Richard Dumbrill.
The location for this performance is the courtyard of Nebuchadnezzar's palace in Babylon. The piece is four minutes long and is intended only as a taste of what the music of ancient Sumer might have sounded like.
コメント (21)
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The moment you realize the oldest story ever told opens up with "In those ancient days ...".
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Civilization now: "shit, ancient times were dope" Sumerians: "shit, ancient times were dope"
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This song reminded me of the time I wanted to buy some copper. I sent my servant over to the baazar to find a merchant who sold copper at a reasonable price. He found one but when he came back, the quality was terrible. I was so furious I screamed "What in Kur is this shit?!?!?!?!" at the top of my lungs. I wrote a complaint to him but from what I heard, the merchant kept it like a trophy. So I would like to end this review by saying: don't ever buy copper from Ea Nasir.
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"When bread was first tasted..." man way to put it in perspective
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Man when he said "𒀆 𒀋𒀙𒃰 𒄐𒄑" I felt that.
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When the oldest written work known to man talks about the ancient times
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Jokes and memes aside, this man has an absolutely stunning voice.
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"In those distant days" That verse that makes you remember that 90% of the entire human history has no surviving records, thus being lost forever.
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I love how the epic is 4000 years old and still begins with "In those distant days"
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That guy at the party who brought his own gishgudi: "Anyway here's The Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian"
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Got some Sumerian humor for you A dog walks into a bar He says ‘I can’t see anything. I’ll open this one’
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3:00 warms my heart even the Sumerians, at the dawn of human civilization, knew when to shred an absolute mad lad riff with vocals
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-Those ancient times when bread was first baked... -Ok, Soomer.
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-I listen to old songs -Oh do you like 80's too? -Actually..
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The Indus Valley Civilization has been very quiet since this dropped...
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Ud rea, ud sura rea Ĝi rea, ĝi bara rae Mu rea, mu sura rea Ud ul niĝdue pa eaba Ud ul niĝdue mi zid duggaaba Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba Šurinna kalammaka niĝtab akaba An kita, badabaraaba Ki anta, badasurraaba Mu namluulu baanĝarraaba
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Hope Gilgamesh does not copyright strike this
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Kids nowadays can't appreciate how available music is. Back in my day you would walk for a month to the city of Uruk, lay siege for 2 years and if you're lucky and break in, find and enslave a musician. Only then can you listen non stop to all the latest hits. Those were the days...
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Just did a quick Internet search, the epic of Gilgamesh was written around approximately 2000B.C. (give or take a century), while the last known wooly mamoths were thought to have died out around 1600B.C. (400 years later), just think about that
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There's a strange almost nostalgic feeling to this song...as if something inside us remembers those ancient times
