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Epic of Gilgamesh with 4500-year-old Lyre (extract)

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A performance of part of the Epic of Gilgamesh. This piece uses the newly-reconstructed and completed Lyre of Ur, which was found in a grave in ancient Mesopotamia.The original instrument was destroyed when the Baghdad museum was looted, and this reconstruction uses original materials - gut strings, pink sandstone, lapis lazuli, gold. The string tuning is based on pipes which were found in the same grave, and which appear in another video extract which we'll upload shortly. Andy Lowings reconstructed the Lyre with the help of an international team, and the extract you see here is performed by Bill Taylor and Jennifer Sturdy - Jennifer wears a headress and jewellery based on contemporary designs, also trimmed with gold.This video is a taste of a series of music, dance and performance being written especially for this instrument, which is gaining great interest in the academic and music world.If you are interested in having the team bring along this stunning instrument and perform for your organisation, please call Andy Lowings on +44 7709 268426 or in the UK, 07709 268426, and he will be happy to talk to you.I made this video as part of my own contribution to the project. I used Neumann mics into a Soundcraft mixer, with Sony widescreen video cameras, and edited it on Adobe Premiere pro. I hope you enjoy the video!If you want to see a higher quality version, it will soon be on the Lyre of Ur site. In the meantime you can find it here: http://www.danceofdelight.com/...

Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 22, 2006 at 11:26 am
Author: MarkHarmer

Length: 01:56
Rating: 4.67
Views: 11692

Tags: Ancient  Baghdad  Epic  Gilgamesh  Harp  Lyre  Mesopotamia  Music  Narration  Poem  Ur  

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andylowings (August 21, 2008 at 9:43 pm)
Hi Wind !You are quite right..to do it in the old language would be better( though pronounciation is rather a problem ). But we did it here in English to allow people to understand the beauty of such old old words...that still ring true today. Thank you for taking an interest.Andy Lowings
WindOfSilence (August 20, 2008 at 9:25 am)
For sure a great research work but I don't subscribe the recitative in english.IMO it would have been nice do it into the old language....
Alastair (August 19, 2008 at 7:54 am)
While I don't agree with much of what MesopotamianGod is saying, I think it would be incorrect to say that these people don't exist. There are likely to have left plenty of living descendants. It would be better to claim that their civilization doesn't exist, which is what I think you meant. I believe all human history belongs to all humans. So no specific group should have rights to the past of mesopotamia.
RolfLarsson (July 1, 2008 at 11:05 pm)
You're not making sense, and are not supporting your claim with any facts.
TuckerD92 (July 1, 2008 at 8:30 pm)
...went covert? My friend you obviously have a passion fot the past, but for some reason you strike me as someone who reads a lot about conspiracies. They may not have been conquered, but they fell none the less. All civilizations eventually fade and die. They had a good run man... but they are gone and are not in control. People say there is a group in control so they can have a scapegoat to shrug off the world's problems on. Believe what you will my good man but keep civil about it
MesopotamiaGod (July 1, 2008 at 10:23 am)
LOL :) Rolf you are a funny man.Assyrian history i know all to well,the year was 612BC when the medes,persians and Babylonians attacked Assyria/Nineveh.AND YES YOU R MISTAKEN!!Hahah... Nineveh is today called Mosul. Ironically the same name given to the River in Trier. ie.Mosul River. How about that for ya. Hahaha Please mate, your a glutten for punishment. But funny. Swedish Larson :)
RolfLarsson (July 1, 2008 at 12:01 am)
You are a quack. They got taken over by the Assyrians and then the Persians, if I'm not mistaken.And you've given no proof, sir, so don't challenge me to stop arguing. I've got history on my side, you've got strange nostalgia/delusions on your side.
MesopotamiaGod (June 30, 2008 at 8:21 am)
Just what happened to Babylon? There is no record of their fall. THERES A REASON FOR THIS!!Because they never fell. Just went covert.But you are right they don't exist. Oh, just one last thing... where does the vatican ideology come from? And the fact that they own more realestate than anyother business "TODAY" is an accident and no they don't have control.Still going to argue this point? And there's much much more, if you think they don't so be it!!But you are wrong, really really wrong.
RolfLarsson (June 30, 2008 at 2:40 am)
And I don't see how Trier supposedly being the first German city (despite there being no "cities" per se in the region of Germania until Roman times) has anything to do with Babylon.
RolfLarsson (June 30, 2008 at 2:39 am)
There is no such country/empire/people known nowadays as Babylonian, no.

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