The Oldest (Known) Song of All Time
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ส.ค. 2020
- The Hurrian Hymn is History's first Song. Well, the oldest known song. If we're really splitting hairs: the earliest written song that can be reconstructed. We're not even sure what the song even sounds like, but each attempt to decode has its own value. All we are sure about is that the Hurrian Hymn is really, really ancient and nothing is as clear as it seems.
*Note that the Hymn was not written in 1600BCE (my mistake), but probably around 1400BCE. Plus, the image I use of the goddess Nikkal is actually the goddess Asherah. There were no pictures of Nikkal, she's a bit too obscure it seems.
Okay, my errors out the way, I hope you enjoy this video. Thanks for 100 subscribers!
H.
#HurrianHymn #OldestSong
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Sources:
Hurrian Hymn:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_...
Oldest Song in the world:
www.amaranthpublishing.com/hur...
sas.academia.edu/RichardDumbrill
Anne Kilmer's Interpretation:
• The First Known Song E...
Dr. Dumbrill's Interpretation:
www.flutekey.com/pdf/HurrianTa...
Here's a version with vocals:
• H6 Hurrian song
Michael Levy's Lyre Interpretation:
• ...The Oldest Known Me...
Check out his Website:
www.ancientlyre.com
Feras Rada's Guitar Arrangement:
• Video
Malek Jandali Performs His Adaptation of “Hurrian Hymn no. 6”:
• Malek Jandali Performs...
samuraiguitarist's excellent video modernising the Hurrian Hymn:
• History's Oldest Song ...
Hurrian Hymn no.6
• Hurrian Hymn To Nikkal...
Intro/Outro - Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian (Peter Pringle)
• The Epic Of Gilgamesh ...
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#OldestSong #HurrianHymn
"I only like their earlier stuff."
"There is no earlier stuff."
😂
LOL
@Muddobber McCrablice
Let a person be themselves, my friend.
LOL
Needs more cow-bell
It's sucks that TH-cam only recommended this 4000years later
@смерть приходит за мной okay but do you have anything to back that up
@смерть приходит за мной are you sure ?
@смерть приходит за мной r/woooosshhh
@смерть приходит за мной Boi if you don't...
@смерть приходит за мной Well there you go then, you found the problem.
I'm 6500 years old and its nice to have younger people still listen to these classics
Uhh I don’t think your 6500 years old that’s impossible!
Its just a joke….
@@rusleysiapno5630joke flew right over your head
@@rusleysiapno5630it’s called a joke mate.
Oh, it's you. Hmmm... We are, now are we?
Classic! Nostalgia is UNREAL!! Only 1400BC kids will know 😂
Ikr! This song was 🔥 back then and still is. Timeless!
Y’all must be ancient souls. LOL
What a hilarious and original joke
Bro ikr
Foreals! It gives me memories of when we used to play Pok-A-Tok! Boy what a time with some real slappers🔥🔥
Everybody gangsta until king of Ugrarit copyright claim the vid 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂 this should be a top comment
Underrated comment.
LMFAOOO
For real
Lmfaoo
I remember getting this song on my Istone
😅😅😅👌🏻
Okay, I'm standing up and clapping. That was good.
Lmao
Underrated comment
@@geoshaasyahadzan8548 Ancient equivalent of an iphone.
It’s humbling to think that one day, when the fragments of humanity try to reconstruct our civilisation after the apocalyptic nuclear winter, Mambo No.5 will be our Hurrian Hymn No.6
I wish it was rick Ashley never gonna give you up, so we can rickroll future humanities descendants
Or Party Rock Anthem, to the greatest confusion of future historians
😂😂
You better would choose Mambo No.5.7, the last update Mr.Bega made, sleeping with Jessica and :)flirting with Alice after he left from Jane! :)
Lol!
Song takes you back to a time that we can envision with music. It is an eerie feeling of time travel to realize that over three millennia ago, people shared this together. Thank you for this engrossing video.
It really is. Somehow one really feels a connection to ancient times through even these attempts of reconstruction of this song. It's something powerful and magical.
Oh you’re a fan of Hurrians? Name 3 of their hymns.
Lolllll
Fake fan 😂
Hurrian hymn no. 5, Hurrian hymn no. 4, and my personal favorite Hurrian hymn no. 2
What's a hurrian?
Hurrian 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 so far 😂
Not gonna lie. The Hurrrians were better when they were underground. Hate the fact that their most known song was able to stand the test of time
I've been a big Hurrians fan ever since the release of their 1400 (BCE) album, Ugarit. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when No. 6 came out in 1403, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. They've been compared to Lipit Ishtar, but I think Hurrians have a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
@@Anw4rr10r I love noth of your guys comments. They are just the best. How do you guys not have more likes on these. They should at the top of the comment section. Well at least I personally found these to be the best jokes in the this whole comment section
@@vampiradeathrockerbatxq762 (:
@@ghrndez cool smile face dude or chick
@@vampiradeathrockerbatxq762 How dare you assume my species I am offended
My friend Gilgamesh showed me this banger. Rest in peace my friend 😢
Enkidu? Is that you?
He is like 2k years older than this
This was my generation. The good ol’ days! I miss it so much. It’s been so long since me and my friends used to listen to this back in middle school. Wish I could go back… 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
0%sex
0% autotune
100% talent
Kids these days would never understand
Hard to be more kid than u
Damn man. Your unusually old
There are loads of talented musicians these days. More than ever.
Why tf is no one in the reply section understanding the joke
@@sikenyson8562 I do get the joke and I'm joking too🤦🤦
Then; Not enough space on tablet.
Now; Not enough space on tablet.
@#$%^! technology glitches. my tablet is cracked too!
I roared with laughter, you deserve a place in paradise. Most original comment ever. 😹
Plot twist: The first tablet was made up by stone. And pressed 2 kgs!
A universally human problem 😭
Lol that’s so true
I'm old enough to remember this song when it was first released. You couldn't walk through a single street without hearing it.
It has been 3400 years ago already?? No way! It was like yesterday this came out! Time flies...
Only 1400 BCE kids will remember how that lyre really slapped.
LOL
😂 😂 😂 😂
it was a hit song back then
I know quite a few slappers who're liars if that helps?
Actually, that's a good point. I build and play lyres, and I can tell you, that there's a lot that can be slapped out of them.
Imagine all of the lost music of the ancient world. Kinda tragic.
So much is lost to the river of time. It really is heartbreaking...
Yeah, who knows what the great library of Alexandria contained, music-wise!
99% of all the knowledge mankind has ever obtained has been lost over time.
@SANSKAR GUPTA gs0801cs181071 hi and Merry Christmas to you - I would like to know more about these ancient songs of India .. where could I hope to hear some do you suppose?
Let's listen to this one before we jump to conclusions
The group Heilung has actually done their own version of the song on their latest album Drif, titled "Nikkal". It quite beautiful.
I love Heilung. Long may they reign.
Fun fact: Heilung means healing in German
That second rendition made me tear up and my body response from head to toe was instant. Thanks for sharing.
The narrator failed to mention that it topped the billboard 100, spotify and itunes in 2500 BCE
and won album of the year,song of the year and 500 grammys😩🙌we stan
Lmfao
One of the top songs ever played in taverns across the known worlds
The billboard of Bedrock radio on the Flintstones 😂
, 😂😂
its so fascinating knowing that we can listen to a song that's 4000 years old
Yes!!!!! It s a miracle spectaculaire!
@Rishav Das Bagchi U couldn't have never made that technology in your food damn life someone smarter than u did...
"Could"
@@PA-1000 you jealous? Well the “we” in Rishav’s comment could’ve meant the human race back then, and the technology “we” [humans] have today to decipher such old music. So don’t get personally pissed for no reason.
@@glasslicker2829 No I'm not jealous just saying I'm just said that because it's like he taking all the credit even though if we didn't have intelligent human beings we wouldn't be here today.
last time i heard this was 3400 years ago, hearing it now the nostalgia is real
Since this is a song that I like a lot, per TH-cam comment rules I am obligated to say how underrated it is, ask who is listening to this in 2022 and thank the cameraman for going back 4,000 yrs. to film it.
And I am obligated under the same rules to tell you that time-travelling cameramen don't exist, which then obligates someone else to reply to me with an obligatory "r/whooosh". Then someone else is obligated to ask "what song is playing?ktx v much", which then obligates someone else to reply "Darude: Sandstorm".
Finally, seeing my reply, someone else will be obligated to remark that they see it's not my first day on the Internet. And I am obligated to not respond to that.
Jesus loves you!!
@@awesome346 Jesus loves me, this I know. Because TH-cam wackos tell me so!
I’m obligated to tell you this was a recording and not video of the hymn therefore you need to thank the sound man. Ancient Unions can be quite territorial so give credit where credit is due.
@@zuzuspetals9281 Go it. 😁
"I was born in the wrong generation, Hurrian music is so much better than the shit people call music nowadays."
You won't be able to watch anime tho
@@strawhat128 Ahahaha
Unironically, kinda true lol 😂👌
Lol
True
*"If iT is tHe olDeSt WhY is It nO.6?"*
If you spent less time on those whacky letters and more time on actually listening then you wouldn't be asking this stupid question
@@electrichorizonproductions5412 I put "" so its clearly not me that posted it wdym.
Electric Horizon Productions, sir the “wacky letters” and the quotations are meant to be a joke as the comment is being a joke
Well my bad then.
this whole exchange has me cracking up.
All of these musical examples sound very thoughtful, carefully laid out, and surprisingly listenable these thousands of years later. Remarkable.
Don't know who that woman is singing but her voice is enchanting to the utmost. Wish I had her complete song even al cappella.
I had a front seat in their first concert. Paid two chickens and one white stone.
I got it by paying with someone else's two chickens and white stone.
Some professions are timeless.
@@arbiterskiss6692 good ol days. i saw you headbanging .
Aw man. I missed the concert.
I was at the back. Paid one pomegranate.
I was there two. Paid with some grain and a stone.
So Hurrians were making Nokia ringtones 4000 years back. Interesting.
LOL
Bwahahahahaha
😂😂🤣
Shit then and shit now
Exactly my first feeling! So, for those really interested int the 1st known song, a tentative of reproduce it begins at 3'16
We don't search for old songs, we search for old memories❤🤣
I remember , 3400 yrs ago, I was working in my field with 20 children when a bullock cart played this song. We danced together and was living our best life.
"I'm in to 50s music"
"Oh like the Platters?"
"1950BC"
😂
Gave me goosebumps listening to this again, its been a few thousand years since i last heard it...
Your grandma wasn't even born
@@RigTags no shit sherlock
@@RigTagsdude his ancestors where probably nomadic hunters when this was written…
Classics always return..
@@metyous3976 they wasn’t even picking yet by then
What a gift that you both made and shared this. Thanks.
Thank for this amazing summary! Really liked the interpretation, too.
Genz kids won't ever know what true music is, I remember roaming the streets of Mesopotamia. Anybody remember lil Anubis?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I do
Yung Methuselah
ah yes lil Anubis. takes me back :)
Yes!!!
еј брат, јас сум роден во 1000 година пр.н.е. с still уште не можам да верувам како технологијата е напредна
Song was streamed 10 billion times. Artist received $20.
Royalty laws were a bitch back then
What if, due to 4000 years of inflation, the average Hurrian earned 3c a year?
Ten if it's Spotify.
What was that in shekels?
@@Sennmut A pound of antisemitic flesh.
I remember cranking this up in a past life, if you’re wondering, yes we did have speakers and sound systems back then. History has just been hidden from us
I've been preforming musical instruments and singing all of my life and at 64, I am just hearing of this. It's beautiful, gives me something new that is very old for me to play around with 😊
4000 years from now: the “WAP” was a traditional song for mating in the ancient civilizations across Earth.
Best. Comment. Ever🤣🤣🤣
I was looking for this comment lol. It is technically a mating song, not? Girls dance to it and guys see them and seek to procreate
A minority of scholars believe Barry White, after he caused the breakup of the Beatles, was involved in ancient mating rituals. But yes, the "WAP" was a traditional song.
I wonder if archeologists will also think plastic Santa fragments are evidence of a powerful deity worshiped in the ancient world, lol?
A rain dance
I don't know why I get really emotional when I think about the people who lived in these ancient times. It doesn't matter how far back you go, humans were always the same. These people from over a thousand years ago were still enjoying music just like we do!
I can understand that, listening to the hymn always makes me sad about all the lost and forgotten things that were made in the past.
And the people who made them.
History has always been akin to a spiritual experience for me.
Sometimes I can almost sense their presence, feel them walking among us. That woman's voice sounds like a fragment of music that's been in my head for years.
I adore this sentiment, and I feel the same way. It's part of why I love Celtic music so much. It's the sound of a culture living and thriving when most believe it to be barely surviving.
If you think about it from an arithmetic stance, it's really probable that you (and I, and each one) descend from people who composed, sang, danced or simply enjoyed those songs back in the days.
The oldest song known to humans was on a cave wall depicting a camp, a town, women singing, a long circular path of some kind with horses running on it. It was determined it was camp town ladies sing this song, camp town race track 5 miles long. Doo dah was added in later years.
You guys are great!😂
Oldie,Oldie,O!die,but goodie.Debuted on Hurriian Bandstand Hosted by Mustafa Clark.😣I played lead Lyre.Covered by the early Stones
The digitized version of the first trial sounds like something straight out of The Legend of Zelda
It definitely sounds like a Zelda shop melody!
exactly what I thought! haha
Runescape
I definitely thought this! I wonder if Zelda and other video game tunes took some inspiration from this, or if there's some kind of shared musical idea in folk music, that we carry on from these ancient tunes?
Soy
i played this out loud, and the old gods opened a hole in my floor and stole my cat.
10/10 bone flutes
LOL
🤣
@@beckyhayob1557 ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
@@cultvult580 ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthugha Fomalhaut n’gha-ghaa naf’lthagn
Lmao
Thank you very much for posting this amazing history lesson on music!!! FASCINATING!!!❤🙏👌
Brilliant video, very informative, amazing work. Terrific explanation. (:
HERE I AM!🎶
Rock me like Hurrian!🎵
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good..
Good taste
Well that was God's song afterall
Rock me like > a < Hurrian...Please get it right. 😉😁💚
The neanderthals have been real quiet since this dropped.
they were overrated
More like the mammoths
Jealous I bet!
Lmaooo
Thank you for this interesting topic.
Thanks for this wonderful video.
Man, the Hurrians older work is great, but near the end they sold out.
Smh tryna reach that cannanite fanbase
I was low-key glad the Sea Peoples put an end to the work, the Hurrians reeeeealy dragged it out with this one.
Bunch of sellouts
Fareeaal . They forgot where they came from.
they turned into souless corporate by the end so sad
You like Hurrian Hymns?
Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Hurrian Hymn No. 6 came out in 1400 BCE, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole hymn has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the song a big boost. They have been compared to the Sumer, but I think the Hurrians have a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
Based
Amazing
HEY PAUL🪓
It's pretty hip to be a Caananite
Impressive, very nice. Lets see Paul Allen's musical hymns
Thank you very much. This is marvellous.
I listened to that song in my youth and it's still a freaking bop
Imagine if one day we discover a stone tablet older than all the song mentioned, and it takes us 10 years to translate it and its just a rick roll that a time traveler made.
Edit: damm this blew up
lmfaoo good one.
i would be proud
Thankfully, I have a time machine. Time to make the greatest rick roll in the universe.
@@TheRealSuperRabbid williamwhitehead288@gmail.com
@@jwhitehead51 w
why
My first concert! Saw them with my mom when I was 14. I have always loved the Hurrians. ❤
Bragger
must be a thousand year old vampire
@@xXxSkyViperxXx you mean 3436 years old
Were you also Jesus' 2nd grade teacher?
Boomer
May u be blessed for posting this...
Great topic, thank you for the video
I'm actually preparing an essay on ancient music for my Ancient Cultures. I've been going through your channel and I love your videos. I hope your channel keeps growing and more people find your content, it's really good.
Hey! Thank you, much appreciated. And best of luck with your essay :)
Hey man, i'm making a podcast about ancient music, can I contact you to get some insights about your research?
Did you get an A+?
This is amazing, but it got me thinking. A bird's song is even older. If you've ever heard a bird sing you've heard an ancient song.
Brahmin chants in India are based on bird song. They are usually not allowed to be recorded, but someone did and the closest analysis is they are based on bird song.
That’s deep
That's beautiful.
Excellent point!!!
This is noted by the romantic poet John Keats in "Ode to a Nightingale"
Shoutout to the guy that recorded the song in 1400 bc
Thank you ☺️ lovely music and great info. ♥️
No tuning, no length and duration. *_Sounds just like guitar tab_*
I THOUGHT THIS EXACTLY, thank you!! Haha, it's basically tabs for a song we don't know on an instrument that no longer exists. But at the time, that's all you'd need.
Except tabs have tuning
@@seir323 the instrument still exists, and many people still play it
@@seir323 any string instrument can be played the same, it's that we don't know how they tuned it and what rhythm was used.
@@1stRateSerrvice the tuning only makes sense to someone who knows what the ledger or scale is
I played this and Gilgamesh was summoned as my servant wtf
a man of culture
And did a tiktok dance and left
@@johnsamuel1999 wrong culture but an effort was made
The real question: did you also get Enkudu?
Zasshu!
I remember seeing them played live, the pits were crazy.
Didn't Millius and Vanillius do a lip sync version of this?
I was there, in Ugarit, I was there, 3000 years ago, when the strength of that boy failed and he dropped all them clay tablets.
While all the other kids are listening to cardi b and travis scott, I only listen to the oldies like this. I was born in the wrong generation.
Smæ, they'll never understand.
why does this scream "I'm not like other girls"
I'm not like other generations
😭😥
Franku taught us well
Everyone be bumping to this while pulling up in their chariots
Actually chariots weren't invented then. People most likely rode on horses and llamas
aCkTualLy
@@potatolord3202 ok potato lord
@@SharttyWaffle just too bad the lived in the part of the world where they didn’t now about llamas
Wah ha ha haa!
This is really great, thanks.
It's like the TAB system for guitar, shows fingering but not the bigger picture. Thanks for posting it. It shows that Musos always wanted to pass on knowlege to other players.
The more we know the better the playing, & more jobs for all of us.
I remember being a DJ and playing this at the club back in the days
Do you know why they were able to compose it so early? They were Hurrian.
Hehehehehehe
Best dad joke for this thread award goes to you
Security will escort you at the door
Groan.
omg😂 best dad joke
Mozart, Elvis Presley, Tupac, Michael Jackson, and xxxtentacion have all been quiet since they heard this
I loved this. Thank you for sharing ✨💕✨👍
from back when rock actually rolled & metal was really heavy...
Very funny on this 11/11/22…
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍
If this is an original comment then great, otherwise .... boo hiss.
Met the lead fluter of Hurrian in one their concerts. Such a nice guy.
I've bought some his bone flutes also! Sound is good... But smells some sh+t
He had a long life too. Lived to the ripe old age of 32.
Why did he have a flute made of lead?
I slept with that guy at stonehengefest.
Ah damn you lucky
Really cool video!
Ahh the good old days where we would travel days to see the hurrians and no cell phones! Just us and the music.
I remember this song winning a Grammy back in the days. Watching Hebat and Sauska present the award got me in my feelings.
Remember when Will Smith slapped Sauska in the face?
It is so sad Lil Euphoriontonesis lost the samifinals with his string instrument prototype 😢
Y'all remember Fuba's diss track?
But their acceptance speech was so long! They'd still be talking today if they didn't cut them off.
Nice Google work
I was 16 when i first watched the Hurrians live.. they played Hymn no.3 and its awesomely great. best day ever!
This is just amazing. Near and Middle Eastern ancient culture is fascinating. I read recently that AI is helping translate those clay tablets much more quickly now. There are whole libraries to be translated, and more discoveries to be made.
Maybe AI could help with this Hurrian hymn too.
Incredible. Truly great!
I am a time traveler. I traveled back in 5000BCE and left a musical tab written in a clay tablet. The tab is going to rick roll every person who tries to decipher the song.
You monster
Oh fu-
lol ok
Huh??
Time flies so fast, I remember listening to this 3400 years ago.
th-cam.com/video/C_1V_tGrtlw/w-d-xo.html
Stop commenting this comment
I see it everywhere and people think they are funny
@@YazinZ_7392 it is funny every time
@@Quitumbe954 ok if u say 😐
Props to the guy who recorded it!!!
Good times. I remember when this 3400 year old song was still new. I was relaxing inside a tree house 3399 years ago listening to this. I feel very old.
They ACTUALLY played it? Those fools! The doors of the Grand Mausoleum of Ur have been reopened! Now, HE walks among us!!!
idiots... now we're all gonna die
Dagoth Ur? Or a separate thing we're referring to here? I'm a little confused.
I, for one, welcome our ancient overlords.
@@merseyviking LOL!
@@lucifer2b666 The ancient Sumerian city that was located in what is now Iraq.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur
This was a very interesting topic. And as a Turkish living in the close approximity to the recovered relic, it surprised me how similar it was the rhythm to the traditional music listened in the area. It survived thousands of years. 🎵
@Der Porkmeister It doesn't matter. I meant the music stayed in that area regardless of the people coming and going.
Thats because you stole your music and instruments from Armenians. Hurrians are Armenians!
@@tigranispiryan4865 Sure
@@tigranispiryan4865 Irrevelant and needlessly antagonistic remark!
@Inaam Ulhaq bro what haha? They are Armenian. Jews didn’t even exist back then. U can even search up where the Hurrians are from. ARMENIA.
I still have my stone tablet ticket from the night they were in town. Its like time just flies.
Loved this. Music was moving
“U still listen to him?”
“Nah he fell off after the Hurricane Hymn no.6”
😂😂😂
Your picture 😂😂😂😂
LOL
This song is nearly 3-and-a-half thousand years old and it's still a little bit of a banger.
"a little bit"
Sounds a lot like "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" 🤔🎶
Seems like our tastes did not change that Much
Excellent!
This is some serious ambiance. Love it
my dad loves oldies. Gonna show him this song and see how old he really is.
"gonna" "kinda"?? Is this Crossville ALABAMA?
This is not the oldest song in the world, no, this is just a tribute.
Cage, is that you?
It's just a cover.
Finally I have found my brethren.
Couldn't remember the oldest song in the world
Yes
Something wondrous to ponder as I drift off to sleep at the end of a perfect Sunday day. Thank You
This is absolutely fascinating..😁🤙