Prof. Anne Kilmer (professor of Assyriology, University of California, and a curator at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley) transcribed one of the oldest known pieces of music notation in the world. Clay tablets relating to music, containing the cuneiform signs of the "Hurrian" language, had been excavated in the early 1950s at the Syrian city of ancient Ugarit in what is now modern Ras Shamra. The tablets date back to approximately 1400 B.C. and contain a hymn to the moon god's wife, Nikal.
And here's one attempt at a remix:
This is not, as some websites would say, the oldest song in the world. The oldest known song right nowdates from 1950BC in Oxyrhinchus in Egypt, titled "Musical Instructions for 'Lipit-Ištar, King of Justice'" on an album recently released by the Ensemble De Organographia.
But it's by far the song with the most available MIDIs.
Why is this important?
B/C U CAN FUCEN DUBSTEP REMIX IT LOOOOL
Here are three MIDIs which interpret the transcription:
http://www.amaranthpublishing.com/kilmer.mid (Kilmer transcription)
http://www.amaranthpublishing.com/Hurrian-DG.mid (Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin transcription)
http://www.amaranthpublishing.com/hurrian-west.mid (M.L. West transcription)
If someone dubsteps remixes this, I will step it for FFR, solo, and KB7.
LET'S SEE SOME 3400 YEAR-OLD WUBWUBWUB WUB WUB WOHHHHB WOHHHHB WOHHHB
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