45 Minutes of Ancient Mesopotamian Music for Meditation
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2021
- This presentation features all the ancient Near East-themed tracks from my 2020 album, "Echoes of Ancient Mesopotamia & Canaan" with detailed album notes for each and every track:
open.spotify.com/album/183Znh...
This album is my mostly historically inspired evocation, of the lost music of ancient Mesopotamia & Canaan; but as the final track, this release also features my most recent arrangement of the reconstructed melody of an actual bronze age hymn to Nikkal; the oldest notated fragment of music which can still be interpreted and performed today; performed this time, on a replica of an actual surviving bronze age lyre & maqamised in the ancient Middle Eastern tradition, as more recently reccomended by Dr Richard Dumbrill, who deciphered the 3,400 year old melody from the original Cuniform musical text. I also uploaded my original arrangement of the Hurrian Hymn, remastered from my 2009 album, "An Ancient Lyre", as it appears in my 2011 comilation album, "Ancient Landscapes" (this version featured my arrangement of Dumbrill's original interpretation of the melody, without the featuring a maqamised musical mode)
For most of the tracks, I play this fascinating replica of an actual, typical bronze age Canaanite form of asymmetric lyre; custom-made for me by Luthieros. The design of this lyre was based on the same proportions of a Canaanite form of lyre found in Egypt, dating to circa 1,500 BCE and which is preserved in Leiden.
These types of lyres were almost certainly introduced into Egypt during the reign of the Canaanite Hyksos kings, that ruled northern Egypt as the 15th dynasty, c.1630-1523 BCE.
The exotic, sitar-like tone of the bass strings of this lyre, are due to the flat-topped, groove-less bridge. As almost all the lyres still played throughout the African continent today still retain this distinctive buzzing timbre (particularly the Ethiopian begena), since the lyre originally probably came to Africa via ancient trade routes between the ancient Near East and Egypt, it is indeed far more likely, that this buzzing timbre of the lyre was much closer to the original ancient near eastern/middle eastern lyres of antiquity.
For some of the tracks, I also use the more sinister, darker timbre of my tenor register 10-string lyre - ideal for evoking the mystery of the long-forgotten pantheon of ancient Mesopotamian & Canaanite gods!
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lo-fi mesopotamian beats to harvest grain to
Lmao
Genius!
🤣
You win.
Righteous lol
this is a certified 𒀀𒀁𒀂𒁀𒀭𒁍𒀪𒀫𒀼𒀺𒀸𒀹𒁇𒁑𒀖𒁄 classic
How did you learn this cuneiform writing,,,, you are amazing
How the hell!!!
ܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓ
15n's symbol is Assasin's creed révélation, mesopotamians are really isus
How did u use ceneiform?
This used to be my shit back in the day. Me and my friend Admat-ili used to hotbox his dad's chariot to this music. When the war with Elam started, he got drafted, and we never met again...
At least Admat-ili had a fair shot with Ea-Nasir's patented copper swords and spearheads.
Many Elamites surely died by Admat-ili's strength, and Ea-Nasir's quality goods!
@@rustyshackleford1465Doesn't Ea-Nasir's copper suck? I heard someone say at the nearby tavern that someone burnt his house down!
Ur kidding me.
Love ❤️ 🎉yhease sonngs
That lil bastard Admat-ili owns me 2 bags of salt ! Anyone got it touch with him recently ?
I played this as background music while I taught my middle school students how to write cuneiform on play-doh. Thanks!
Awesome! What amazingly creative idea to use of my tunes for !! 😀
I love this
It was really helpful when writing complaints about the quality of copper from Ea- Nasir.
Feels like a home I've never known but always knew
This place is the origin of mankind, maybe you are from there 😊
Their lives and society would likely be quite unrecognizable, yet somehow oddly familliar
Reincarnation is real. Except I don't think it's out of your hands. Should you ask of God to live another life when you die. I am sure he grants it. He's limitless.
@@Man_of_Sumerianit’s not the origin of mankind, nomads have been around thousands of years before, it’s js Mesopotamians were the first nomads to settle in villages
You can almost see, hear the people living back then. Lives full of feelings like ours. Like a peephole into the past. This is truly powerful music. Thank you for sharing it.
No you cannot
@@luismartinez6408 How could you not unless you are a person with no imagination at all??
@@luismartinez6408 You don’t know what the person is experiencing. YOU cannot. Speak for yourself only.
Hiiii
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It's strange to listen to something so ancient, yet so familiar.
A lot of thoses melodies with common grounds travelled to the rest of middle eastern, also marghreb, greece and especially italy towards the bridge of both world via Malta and Sicily to the rest .
Even influencing a lot of troubadours that were all the way through from the coast , Catalogna , Occitania, provenza and into the south piemontese and ligurian world with Contea de Nissa, To Genova .
@@Nissardpertugiu Makes complete sense! It's very cool to see these ancient influences still alive in that regards.
The language of music is spoken by every human that ever lived
Imagine that sound at a time when there were no cell phones, televisions or radios. It was certainly seen as surprising, generating extreme feelings of calm or ecstasy. And indeed it still does today. Hugs.
Great Comment: Brings The PAST INTO PRESENT And OR FUTURE. A Kim Clement Quote [Song]. I'M SOMEWHERE IN THE FUTURE AND I [WE] LOOK MUCH BETTER THAN I (WE) LOOK RIGHT NOW.!.
No cell phones. Also perpetual war, slavery, and some human sacrifice.
@@js1817 We still have all of these plus cellphones.
@@txekoratsu Exactly so.
This is an oldie!
I remember when it first came out!
You kids and your fancy new music, back in my days, we play music using bone flutes and drums made of mammoth skin.
Even vampires don't live that long
Blessings from the middle-east
thank your for your music and the added value of pictures and words.
May the melodies of Uruk surpass any Rihanna song.
And may you gain recognition for your art of work.
Not that surpassing a Rihanna song would be difficult 😏
ancient sumerians got it out for rihanna
uh oh, this bronze age mesopotamian rabbit hole is deeper than i thought
Lol it’s true
I admire your dedication to your craft, because I have noticed how much effort your have put into uploading on YT!! You have put in a lot of uploads, and they are regular! That is rare, and because of that I admire your determination.
Meditating on this clears my mind completely. And I feel it… spiritually. This is special. Thank you
Thank you for putting this video together of ancient music & all the other ancient music you share with us. I appreciate you. ❤
I appreciate your words! Many thanks for listening.
Merci pour cette belle interprétation musicale Michael Levy ! C'est toujours un grand plaisir de vous écouter.Je suis transportée avec joie dans l'esprit des civilisations du passé .👍👍😊🌞🎶🎶♥
Man brings back memories.... how time flies...😢
Thank you for these longer videos like this; I greatly enjoy them!
lofi mesopotamian radio | chill beats to relax/write complaints about low-grade copper to
Love this…thank you for the inspiration! ❤
Thank you for this music, it's beautiful!
POV: You're a dodgy merchant who sells people low quality copper listening a performance making another business deal
Assyrian here! Love this 👌
Christian Assyrian from Indiana. Hello.
This album is an incredible journey.
Wonderfully played Michael! I was at moments in a real Trans, between the beautiful sounds, melodies, the visuals and tidbits of history details, felt like I was walking amongst the ancients. I especially appreciate this even more being an Assyrian. Very grateful for this, and definitely sharing. Continue the great work and contributions my friend.
I can't wait to show this to my father, hes also a musical Artist.
✨️👏🔥
An honour for me to 'continue where the ancients left off' in creating new music for the recreated ancient lyre & in doing so, to celebrate all the wonderful diversity of musical culture around the world! Music is the only true ancient magic with the mystical power to unite all mankind as one...
@@MichaelLevyMusic truest words ever spoken
when bro said "𒀆 𒀋𒀙𒃰 𒄐𒄑" it really made me cry
Feels so good to be here
I like listening to your music when I'm stoned.
Listening to this while reading The Kybalion, life is great
Hermeticum and three initiates as well
As above, so below, brother.
Your awesome man! I hope we can collab on some music one day 🙏💯 very nice work. This makes me feel relaxed!
This is so cool 😎
A beautiful garden and birds and life flourishing. Zen.
To hear another of my lyres actually recorded live in my actual garden with birds singing and the splashing of a garden fountain, do also check out my track, "In an Ancient Roman Garden":
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/track/in-an-ancient-roman-garden-2
Dang this music straight out of the stars If they be playing music on a spaceship this is what it sounds like I imagine
Is there any reference book which help me with learning about music of those age. As a persian this atmosphere is so familiar to me but I'm looking for forgotten parts of music in this area. Many thanks.
I’m liking this. It reminds me a bit of the Indian inspired beetles music, like song love you to.
I thought of that too : D
amazing♥️
Je vous remercie Mr Levy pour votre travail incroyable. 🙂
Εύγε!
Thank you for the mystical music. Although it has the effect of unleashing ancient and ungodly babylonian spells and conjurations, it's great for studying
Fear not! My tunes are not literal incantations to any specific scary primeval ancient gods...just as ancient historical novelists uses the magic of words to transport the reader to ancient times, I use the magic of music instead - like the works of a historical novelist, my tunes are all works of aesthetic fiction...not an attempt to 'wake the sleeping pantheon of ancient gods' fact! 😉
Jesus is Lord
@@MichaelLevyMusic so they’re not real actual tunes?
@@prettykitty5416 - of course they are 'real, actual tunes' - which I created! The Hurrian Hymn text h6 (a Hymn to Nikkal, goddess of the orchards) is the only substantial fragment of an actual Bronze Age Mesopotamian music to have survived in a form of Cuneiform musical notation - of which I have recorded several modern interpretations, which feature in this presentation.
@@MichaelLevyMusic darn I was tryna summon some ancient gods. 🤷🏼♀️😂
I can see how Mesopotamian music strongly influenced traditional middle eastern, japanese and indian music
very interesting
and captivating
Wish I could invent written language and beer with my homies while listening to this ,but it was already done
I remember listening to this with Amardamu and gilgamesh
Ah the Euphrates! Where I use the water for a nice Mesopotamian cocktail and also for cleaning my hiney
How do you know jow they were tuned?
So beautiful. Can this be used for videos on the topic of ancient Mesopotamia or would I get a copyright strike?
Thank you! Any other creator can feature my music in their own videos, but since all my tracks are copyright registered, RUclips simply generates a few ads around these videos from which I eventually gain a few quid in 'royalties'. Copyright notices are automatically generated and in no way affect your channel's standing.
Im Iraqi, im happy that my ancestors are from Mesopotamia :)
everyone's ancestors are from Mesopotamia 💀
@@twaffelz bro... you can't be this dumb, are you joking?
@@twaffelzno? Mesopotamians weren’t the first humans, they were the first humans to settle. Caucasians come from when nomads settle in Europe, (Greece was the first), middle eastern came from Mesopotamia. Israeli’s came from Israel, northern Africans came from Egypt. Southern Asians came from India. Eastern Asians came from China, and south eastern Asians came from a mix of both.
Humans were nomadic way before Mesopotamia was around. Mesopotamians were just the first to actually create villages, but people were still nomadic across the world
I remember when this first came out
1st March, 2020, to be precise:
open.spotify.com/album/183Znh8Rb2AFtyfwAlxA6a?si=dIWVhOSiQqCnjgaLop_HOA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A183Znh8Rb2AFtyfwAlxA6a
Nostalgia
Yeah? You used to listen to this as a kid or teenager and now you're an adult remembering it fondly?
🖤🖤🖤
Have put this on my group of "Anunnaki" 59k+ *book ♥
Much appreciated! Having no record company to do all my 'promo' stuff, I honestly rely on the support of anybody who likes my music, kindly sharing it to new, potentially receptive ears! Thanks once more
Have you tried a reconstruction of the lyre from the Ur death pits, c. 2,500 BC?
I haven't - but the ever awesome Peter Pringle has: ruclips.net/video/JU4QRxsZhjg/видео.htmlsi=pjQoy0brEGrTF9FD
😊bagus
For a minute, I thought you typed 'Bagpuss' (one of my favourite kids TV shows here in the UK during in the mid 1970's!!)
are these songs recreations of real historical lyre songs or originally made with inspiration from the period?
Both - the last track on my album "Echoes of Ancient Mesopotamia & Canaan" is "Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal" - my arrangement of Dr Richard Dumbrill's new interpretation of the 3,400 old melody. The other tracks are historically inspired original compositions, but all performed on a replica of an actual surviving Canaanite-style lyre dating to circa 1,500 BC (the ancient Egyptian 'Leiden Lyre).
@@MichaelLevyMusic Thats so cool, thank you
everybody is gangsta until they discovered this one was just the unplugged version
did king david write the psalms on this ? it must have sounded beautiful
This particular lyre us probably as close as we can get to an approximation of what David's lyre looked & sounded like - instead of being based on ancient illustrations, this instrument is based on the proportions of an actual surviving Caananite style lyre found in Egypt & currently preserved in Leiden, dating to circa 1,500 BC - a style of lyre construction in the Middle East which endured in lyre design until about 1000 BC; the accepted traditional time frame of the life of King David.
David would almost certainly have played something very similar, although his fabled lyre may have been presumably more 'rustic' if he had crafted it himself, instead of tainting his legend by purchasing it from Canaanite traders vack in his day!
Welcome to Lut Gholein
Did King David play this instrument when he wrote the Psalms? David was the sweet psalmist of Yisrael! Shalom.
The type of lyre David himself once played almost certainly resembled this one. Even although this lyre is a replica of one found in Egypt & preserved in Leiden, this type of lyre is distinctively Canaanite & almost certainly was introduced to Egypt during the reign of the Canaanite Hyksos Kings.
Just how early Israelite pottery is like a more simplified, rustic version of Cannanite pottery, probably King Savid's own lyre was also a simplified, more rustic version of these Canaanite lyres?
Thank you Michael! 🇮🇱🇺🇸🕎✡✝️🎚📖💟💒⛪🙏😍🎼🎵🎻🎺📯🎹
@@MichaelLevyMusic this is a lie kind David invented this instrument I know that for a fact
Back then they did not invent drums, so as you can hear the music has no base line
በክርስቶስ የተቀደሰ 🙏
This music is from BCE (Before Christian Era) Christianity didn't exist for a long time, so Jesus had nothing to do with this masterpiece. God, undoubtedly. But Jesus, no.
@@fabianremie9888jesus is god
Lifting heavy things to this to achieve Gilgamesh's levels of gains.
Was this music found in clay tablets?
Hello my fellow 5000 year old Soomers
36:52
Też to Właśnie wyczaiłem ten sam kawałek oryginał
𒂷 𒈜𒈜 𒆠 𒈬𒊏𒉘𒂗!
Ge narnar ki mu-ra-ag-en!
I love these songs!
How do I learn this writing,,, please
@@Man_of_Sumerian John Huehnergard's A Grammar of Akkadian is a great jumping-off point for learning Akkadian cuneiform. The first few chapters are very grammar-heavy, but he gets into the actual characters later on. It's pretty beginner friendly too.
Напоминает арабскую музыку
wow their music instrument kinda similar to east asian (japan)
would ya define this as "modern classical"? ^_^
One day I'm gonna be a DJ playing a club, and I'm gonna yell "YOU GUY'S WANNA HEARS SOME OLD SCHOOL SHIT!!"....
... and then put this one.
♪♫♥
Some of the comments 😀
I dont remember this somg 4600 years ago
Home
Definitive Edition
35:00
Music from the days of Abraham
Still stuck in Babylon
I give honor to the Goddess Ereshkigal. "Queen of the Great Earth."
Haha. Why? Of all the options, why?
Is this original?
In my ongoing musical mission to 'carry on where the ancients left off', in creating new music in ancient musical modes & intonations for the recreated lyres of antiquity, most of my recordings are original, either historically or mythologically inspired compositions - however, in this presention, Dr Richard Dumbrill's most recent 'Maqamised' version of the Bronze Age Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal is featured, which I arranged for replica Bronze Age lyre, dating back to circa 1,400 BC!
@@MichaelLevyMusic Thank you!
How is ot even possible to reconstruct an ancient piece of music without any musical notes?
Forms of musical notation pre-dating our Wesern stave system date back to circa 1400 BC! The oldest fragment of notated music so far discovered which can be interpreted is the Hurrian Hymn text h6 - names of lyre strings written in Cuneiform represented changes in musical intervals & like in today's Middle Eastern music, a diad of 2 notes represented a passage of notes between them.
In ancient Egypt & Israel, cheironomy was used - a system of hand gestures represented specific changes in pitch.
In ancient Greece, modified alphabetical symbols represented specific notes and intricate treaties on ancient Greek music theory survive, describing diatonic musical modes, Chromatic modes & microntonal enharmonic modes. 60 or so actual fragments of ancient Greek music survive, including one complete song, the 2000 year old "Song of Seikilos"...."While we live shine, bear no grief at all,for life lasts but a short while & death demands its toll"
@@MichaelLevyMusicI love your channel and explanations. Thank you so much!
Listening in 2023 😎😎😎
Iltam sumra rasupti elatim
This the shit you be hearing in Dry Dry Desert
Hiii
This is proto-proto-proto-metal...
Nice Sumerian fouge D-minor😅
the ancestors of the kurds!
How similar to an electric guitar in some subtle aspects. A talented guitarist could possibly play these notes, with a heck of a lot of practice, and bloody fingers
Ironically, I always longed to be able to play electric guitar, but could never get my head around that infernal, illogical maze of a fretboard!
I'm an old soul from ancient sumer, ASK ME ANYTHING!
@MARK ESQUIVEL 999BC was after 1000BC ;)
@@dairop3220 lmfao
Michael: Elijah brought down fire from God and then slayed all the prophets of Baal! 1 Kings 18:21---40; KJV Holy Bible
The LORD God of Israel hates idolatry!
Please distinguish between aesthetic fiction and actual religious beliefs! All my music are works of aesthetic fiction, not literal praises to pantheons of actual ancient gods! I simply use music to transport my listeners back in time, in the same way an ancient historical novelist uses words to create the same immersive aesthetic effect.
me when u give me the aux
There's no way to fact check this music.
Yes there is - all the detailed track notes are provided on my Bandcamp page for this album: michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-ancient-mesopotamia-canaan
You do not find this music it find s you .
"plays music to weed plant"
Learn English and try again.
🙄mesopotamian music for young people😌
8 adds in 10 minutes? Seriously?
Sorry about this, but if this annoys you, there are no ads if you subscribe to RUclips Premium (without these RUclips ads, there is not any revenue reward whatsoever, for all the countless hours it takes to create, record, produce & digitally distribute my music, without the benefit of a record company to do this on my behalf)
@@MichaelLevyMusic Im definetly not gonna suscribe to youtube premium and I think it's sad that you need to put so many adds in order to obtain a fair reward. On the other hand, if you have a Bandcamp or other place where your music can be purchased, I'll do it gladly as soon as I can. Thanks for your response and for the music.
I do have a Bandcamp site as well:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/
RUclips automatically places these ads on non-premium subscription RUclips, simply since all my tracks are copyright registered - otherwise anyone out there could use my music on their own videos and I would get paid nothing....us 'lowly musicians' deserve to earn some sort of living from our work, as much as anybody else!
@@MichaelLevyMusic Absolutely, I didn't meant otherwise. It is just that I prefer to pay directly you, instead of youtube. Thanks for the link and again, for the music. I'll add it inmediatly at my wishlist so I can buy it (soon I hope). Keep doing such fantastic art.
It was wonderful to talk with you.
@@MichaelLevyMusic Just bought your "Ancient egyptian magic album". I always had a weakness for egyptian music and "Incantations of Heka" is absolutely haunting, so I couldn't help it. "Passage to the afterlife" and "Dance of the Priestesses" are absolutely fantastic too.
Thank you, sir.
🙄
I can almost see the Ancient Folk after a day of driving their tractor. Get on their cell ,,order some Indian put on a Movie. And Play an Ancient Video Game.
Everyone just STFU with all the prophesizing in the comments. For fucks sake.. just enjoy the music.