45 Minutes of Ancient Mesopotamian Music for Meditation

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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:
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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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  • @slickgamesinc.9002
    @slickgamesinc.90022 жыл бұрын

    lo-fi mesopotamian beats to harvest grain to

  • @mrsonicblah1

    @mrsonicblah1

    Жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @broadmeadowsipuot7465

    @broadmeadowsipuot7465

    Жыл бұрын

    Genius!

  • @Ankhstiem

    @Ankhstiem

    Жыл бұрын

    🤣

  • @Ironfrenzy217

    @Ironfrenzy217

    Жыл бұрын

    You win.

  • @ProjectAthens144

    @ProjectAthens144

    Жыл бұрын

    Righteous lol

  • @mostlysykez177
    @mostlysykez177 Жыл бұрын

    this is a certified 𒀀𒀁𒀂𒁀𒀭𒁍𒀪𒀫𒀼𒀺𒀸𒀹𒁇𒁑𒀖𒁄 classic

  • @alial-nawfalizubidi

    @alial-nawfalizubidi

    11 ай бұрын

    How did you learn this cuneiform writing,,,, you are amazing

  • @sigurdrobertsson2231

    @sigurdrobertsson2231

    9 ай бұрын

    How the hell!!!

  • @TimCizej137

    @TimCizej137

    8 ай бұрын

    ܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓܓ

  • @socrate8354

    @socrate8354

    8 ай бұрын

    15n's symbol is Assasin's creed révélation, mesopotamians are really isus

  • @redhotphoenixgamer6009

    @redhotphoenixgamer6009

    8 ай бұрын

    How did u use ceneiform?

  • @erikhaar490
    @erikhaar4908 ай бұрын

    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...

  • @rustyshackleford1465

    @rustyshackleford1465

    8 ай бұрын

    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!

  • @adrianalicea6704

    @adrianalicea6704

    Ай бұрын

    ​​@@rustyshackleford1465Doesn't Ea-Nasir's copper suck? I heard someone say at the nearby tavern that someone burnt his house down!

  • @Sennmut

    @Sennmut

    Ай бұрын

    Ur kidding me.

  • @Janehayes417.hotmail

    @Janehayes417.hotmail

    24 күн бұрын

    Love ❤️ 🎉yhease sonngs

  • @michaelkoncsics
    @michaelkoncsics7 ай бұрын

    I played this as background music while I taught my middle school students how to write cuneiform on play-doh. Thanks!

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    7 ай бұрын

    Awesome! What amazingly creative idea to use of my tunes for !! 😀

  • @MeckaDray

    @MeckaDray

    3 ай бұрын

    I love this

  • @Asheanae
    @Asheanae2 жыл бұрын

    Feels like a home I've never known but always knew

  • @alial-nawfalizubidi

    @alial-nawfalizubidi

    11 ай бұрын

    This place is the origin of mankind, maybe you are from there 😊

  • @daylightbright7675

    @daylightbright7675

    10 ай бұрын

    Their lives and society would likely be quite unrecognizable, yet somehow oddly familliar

  • @ReveredDead

    @ReveredDead

    5 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @HeindsAG

    @HeindsAG

    20 күн бұрын

    @@alial-nawfalizubidiit’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

  • @f.renardeau114
    @f.renardeau114 Жыл бұрын

    It was really helpful when writing complaints about the quality of copper from Ea- Nasir.

  • @nokta7373
    @nokta73732 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @luismartinez6408

    @luismartinez6408

    Жыл бұрын

    No you cannot

  • @TempleOvBlackLight

    @TempleOvBlackLight

    Жыл бұрын

    @@luismartinez6408 How could you not unless you are a person with no imagination at all??

  • @Jocelyn_Jade

    @Jocelyn_Jade

    Жыл бұрын

    @@luismartinez6408 You don’t know what the person is experiencing. YOU cannot. Speak for yourself only.

  • @CubicPlanets

    @CubicPlanets

    Жыл бұрын

    Hiiii

  • @CubicPlanets

    @CubicPlanets

    Жыл бұрын

    ,,,

  • @TempleOvBlackLight
    @TempleOvBlackLight Жыл бұрын

    It's strange to listen to something so ancient, yet so familiar.

  • @Nissardpertugiu

    @Nissardpertugiu

    Жыл бұрын

    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 .

  • @TempleOvBlackLight

    @TempleOvBlackLight

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Nissardpertugiu Makes complete sense! It's very cool to see these ancient influences still alive in that regards.

  • @stolyartoad8640

    @stolyartoad8640

    7 ай бұрын

    The language of music is spoken by every human that ever lived

  • @JustVeryTired.
    @JustVeryTired.27 күн бұрын

    Man brings back memories.... how time flies...😢

  • @wendellive
    @wendellive Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @a2j.holyloveaffairreyna757

    @a2j.holyloveaffairreyna757

    Жыл бұрын

    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.!.

  • @js1817

    @js1817

    11 ай бұрын

    No cell phones. Also perpetual war, slavery, and some human sacrifice.

  • @txekoratsu

    @txekoratsu

    10 ай бұрын

    @@js1817 We still have all of these plus cellphones.

  • @catherinewinter6547

    @catherinewinter6547

    7 ай бұрын

    @@txekoratsu Exactly so.

  • @johngreen9564
    @johngreen95642 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @SlashHarkenUltra

    @SlashHarkenUltra

    Жыл бұрын

    Not that surpassing a Rihanna song would be difficult 😏

  • @satohime

    @satohime

    6 ай бұрын

    ancient sumerians got it out for rihanna

  • @robertabray-enhus3198
    @robertabray-enhus31986 ай бұрын

    This is an oldie! I remember when it first came out!

  • @hectorcapistran2169

    @hectorcapistran2169

    Ай бұрын

    You kids and your fancy new music, back in my days, we play music using bone flutes and drums made of mammoth skin.

  • @CubicApocalypse128
    @CubicApocalypse128 Жыл бұрын

    lofi mesopotamian radio | chill beats to relax/write complaints about low-grade copper to

  • @JAMWITCH666
    @JAMWITCH6666 ай бұрын

    This is easily one of the greatest albums of all time. Oh man did this take me places. I loved every tap, and scratch and strum, everything was just so wonder and perfect. A true blessing for music lovers around the world. THANK YOU!!!!

  • @Probabilityislife

    @Probabilityislife

    5 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @floorfungus4209
    @floorfungus4209 Жыл бұрын

    uh oh, this bronze age mesopotamian rabbit hole is deeper than i thought

  • @TracyD2

    @TracyD2

    15 күн бұрын

    Lol it’s true

  • @user-hw8ie6ti4o
    @user-hw8ie6ti4o2 жыл бұрын

    I like listening to your music when I'm stoned.

  • @sirousseifirad155
    @sirousseifirad155 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @litseepolaris3342
    @litseepolaris33422 жыл бұрын

    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 .👍👍😊🌞🎶🎶♥

  • @Pl4sm0
    @Pl4sm0 Жыл бұрын

    Listening to this while reading The Kybalion, life is great

  • @ElRayDelRio

    @ElRayDelRio

    Жыл бұрын

    Hermeticum and three initiates as well

  • @leonardcsapo416

    @leonardcsapo416

    3 ай бұрын

    As above, so below, brother.

  • @karamp242
    @karamp2426 ай бұрын

    Assyrian here! Love this 👌

  • @jerryjohanan1940

    @jerryjohanan1940

    Ай бұрын

    Christian Assyrian from Indiana. Hello.

  • @KalamityBane
    @KalamityBane Жыл бұрын

    Meditating on this clears my mind completely. And I feel it… spiritually. This is special. Thank you

  • @SocialDawning
    @SocialDawning10 ай бұрын

    POV: You're a dodgy merchant who sells people low quality copper listening a performance making another business deal

  • @vigouroso
    @vigouroso2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @PrimitiveInTheExtreme
    @PrimitiveInTheExtreme Жыл бұрын

    This album is an incredible journey.

  • @Bloopsan
    @Bloopsan8 ай бұрын

    Feels so good to be here

  • @micahgunnell
    @micahgunnell3 ай бұрын

    Love this…thank you for the inspiration! ❤

  • @jonofarc443
    @jonofarc4432 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for these longer videos like this; I greatly enjoy them!

  • @ettorealbertini9749
    @ettorealbertini9749 Жыл бұрын

    when bro said "𒀆 𒀋𒀙𒃰 𒄐𒄑" it really made me cry

  • @lyndasutherland6165
    @lyndasutherland61653 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this music, it's beautiful!

  • @LoneStarWomanInACajunWorld
    @LoneStarWomanInACajunWorldАй бұрын

    Thank you for putting this video together of ancient music & all the other ancient music you share with us. I appreciate you. ❤

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    Ай бұрын

    I appreciate your words! Many thanks for listening.

  • @405OKC
    @405OKC2 жыл бұрын

    Your awesome man! I hope we can collab on some music one day 🙏💯 very nice work. This makes me feel relaxed!

  • @brucejohnson5786
    @brucejohnson57862 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    2 жыл бұрын

    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-vd6ny

    @Jesus-vd6ny

    2 жыл бұрын

    Jesus is Lord

  • @prettykitty5416

    @prettykitty5416

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MichaelLevyMusic so they’re not real actual tunes?

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @prettykitty5416

    @prettykitty5416

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MichaelLevyMusic darn I was tryna summon some ancient gods. 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

  • @jeffm3283
    @jeffm3283 Жыл бұрын

    Wish I could invent written language and beer with my homies while listening to this ,but it was already done

  • @Nimroud
    @Nimroud6 ай бұрын

    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. ✨️👏🔥

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    6 ай бұрын

    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...

  • @Nimroud

    @Nimroud

    6 ай бұрын

    @@MichaelLevyMusic truest words ever spoken

  • @SirCutieYuki_
    @SirCutieYuki_8 ай бұрын

    Im Iraqi, im happy that my ancestors are from Mesopotamia :)

  • @twaffelz

    @twaffelz

    28 күн бұрын

    everyone's ancestors are from Mesopotamia 💀

  • @SirCutieYuki_

    @SirCutieYuki_

    27 күн бұрын

    @@twaffelz bro... you can't be this dumb, are you joking?

  • @HeindsAG

    @HeindsAG

    20 күн бұрын

    @@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

  • @FightingForLaughs
    @FightingForLaughs2 ай бұрын

    This is so cool 😎

  • @jerjer4150
    @jerjer4150 Жыл бұрын

    A beautiful garden and birds and life flourishing. Zen.

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @arikanidjar
    @arikanidjar3 ай бұрын

    I can see how Mesopotamian music strongly influenced traditional middle eastern, japanese and indian music

  • @johnlevi1056
    @johnlevi10562 жыл бұрын

    amazing♥️

  • @dolganseraphin4917
    @dolganseraphin49172 ай бұрын

    everybody is gangsta until they discovered this one was just the unplugged version

  • @MTB214
    @MTB214 Жыл бұрын

    I’m liking this. It reminds me a bit of the Indian inspired beetles music, like song love you to.

  • @withgoddess1119

    @withgoddess1119

    2 ай бұрын

    I thought of that too : D

  • @basedshia
    @basedshia Жыл бұрын

    I remember listening to this with Amardamu and gilgamesh

  • @fosakos6957
    @fosakos69578 ай бұрын

    Εύγε!

  • @JINNIBOO4477
    @JINNIBOO4477 Жыл бұрын

    Dang this music straight out of the stars If they be playing music on a spaceship this is what it sounds like I imagine

  • @unstoppablezone4980
    @unstoppablezone49807 ай бұрын

    Was this music found in clay tablets?

  • @Garret1002
    @Garret10026 ай бұрын

    I remember when this first came out

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    6 ай бұрын

    1st March, 2020, to be precise: open.spotify.com/album/183Znh8Rb2AFtyfwAlxA6a?si=dIWVhOSiQqCnjgaLop_HOA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A183Znh8Rb2AFtyfwAlxA6a

  • @Questo-jg4fy
    @Questo-jg4fy7 ай бұрын

    very interesting

  • @Questo-jg4fy

    @Questo-jg4fy

    7 ай бұрын

    and captivating

  • @venustiana1643
    @venustiana16433 ай бұрын

    🖤🖤🖤

  • @dieuetmondroithonisoitquim338
    @dieuetmondroithonisoitquim3382 жыл бұрын

    Je vous remercie Mr Levy pour votre travail incroyable. 🙂

  • @Diogolindir
    @Diogolindir5 күн бұрын

    Lifting heavy things to this to achieve Gilgamesh's levels of gains.

  • @Amfortas
    @Amfortas2 жыл бұрын

    Welcome to Lut Gholein

  • @salty-tomato
    @salty-tomato9 ай бұрын

    Music from the days of Abraham

  • @cynthiajantz9314
    @cynthiajantz9314 Жыл бұрын

    Did King David play this instrument when he wrote the Psalms? David was the sweet psalmist of Yisrael! Shalom.

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    Жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @cynthiajantz9314

    @cynthiajantz9314

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Michael! 🇮🇱🇺🇸🕎✡✝️🎚📖💟💒⛪🙏😍🎼🎵🎻🎺📯🎹

  • @yahushandawid

    @yahushandawid

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MichaelLevyMusic this is a lie kind David invented this instrument I know that for a fact

  • @CubicPlanets
    @CubicPlanets Жыл бұрын

    Nostalgia

  • @js1817

    @js1817

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah? You used to listen to this as a kid or teenager and now you're an adult remembering it fondly?

  • @aripiispanen9349
    @aripiispanen93499 ай бұрын

    ♪♫♥

  • @JAMWITCH666
    @JAMWITCH6666 ай бұрын

    SPIRIT OF THE SKY, REMEMBER! SPIRIT OF THE EARTH, REMEMBER!

  • @MrMikeTheMan89
    @MrMikeTheMan89 Жыл бұрын

    How do you know jow they were tuned?

  • @aripiispanen9349
    @aripiispanen93497 ай бұрын

    Have put this on my group of "Anunnaki" 59k+ *book ♥

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    7 ай бұрын

    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

  • @dragon6606
    @dragon6606 Жыл бұрын

    did king david write the psalms on this ? it must have sounded beautiful

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @neuropathical
    @neuropathical11 ай бұрын

    are these songs recreations of real historical lyre songs or originally made with inspiration from the period?

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    11 ай бұрын

    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).

  • @neuropathical

    @neuropathical

    11 ай бұрын

    @@MichaelLevyMusic Thats so cool, thank you

  • @user-xs1is9yd5o
    @user-xs1is9yd5o Жыл бұрын

    𒂷 𒈜𒈜 𒆠 𒈬𒊏𒉘𒂗! Ge narnar ki mu-ra-ag-en! I love these songs!

  • @alial-nawfalizubidi

    @alial-nawfalizubidi

    11 ай бұрын

    How do I learn this writing,,, please

  • @lizzie997

    @lizzie997

    Ай бұрын

    @@alial-nawfalizubidi 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.

  • @Sennmut
    @SennmutАй бұрын

    Have you tried a reconstruction of the lyre from the Ur death pits, c. 2,500 BC?

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    Ай бұрын

    I haven't - but the ever awesome Peter Pringle has: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIlos7Sxo73Omso.htmlsi=pjQoy0brEGrTF9FD

  • @AZEW2023
    @AZEW2023 Жыл бұрын

    Could i use this music in a documentary for a class in school

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    Жыл бұрын

    Certainly! Thanks for taking the time to ask 😀

  • @Yaruandromedano1111
    @Yaruandromedano11116 ай бұрын

    በክርስቶስ የተቀደሰ 🙏

  • @fabianremie9888

    @fabianremie9888

    6 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @spaceluck8497

    @spaceluck8497

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@fabianremie9888jesus is god

  • @URProductions
    @URProductions2 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @housepalmer
    @housepalmer4 ай бұрын

    Hello my fellow 5000 year old Soomers

  • @syahrilaril2764
    @syahrilaril2764 Жыл бұрын

    😊bagus

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    Жыл бұрын

    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!!)

  • @vaeyguh2673
    @vaeyguh2673 Жыл бұрын

    This the shit you be hearing in Dry Dry Desert

  • @pacco1737
    @pacco17372 жыл бұрын

    36:52

  • @leinad2455

    @leinad2455

    2 жыл бұрын

    Też to Właśnie wyczaiłem ten sam kawałek oryginał

  • @user-mp6fw3ir9b
    @user-mp6fw3ir9b Жыл бұрын

    Напоминает арабскую музыку

  • @Jackson_Anderson
    @Jackson_Anderson8 ай бұрын

    Home

  • @Bumblebeez011
    @Bumblebeez01111 ай бұрын

    I give honor to the Goddess Ereshkigal. "Queen of the Great Earth."

  • @js1817

    @js1817

    11 ай бұрын

    Haha. Why? Of all the options, why?

  • @voyagerdeepspaceexploratio5023
    @voyagerdeepspaceexploratio50234 ай бұрын

    Definitive Edition

  • @estebankalong9944
    @estebankalong99449 ай бұрын

    Listening in 2023 😎😎😎

  • @Kristenm28
    @Kristenm282 жыл бұрын

    Still stuck in Babylon

  • @verstummler
    @verstummler Жыл бұрын

    Is this original?

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @verstummler

    @verstummler

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MichaelLevyMusic Thank you!

  • @peterkechker6331
    @peterkechker6331 Жыл бұрын

    How is ot even possible to reconstruct an ancient piece of music without any musical notes?

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    Жыл бұрын

    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"

  • @fartnutssupreme4930

    @fartnutssupreme4930

    11 ай бұрын

    @@MichaelLevyMusicI love your channel and explanations. Thank you so much!

  • @Clukay404
    @Clukay404 Жыл бұрын

    wow their music instrument kinda similar to east asian (japan)

  • @withgoddess1119
    @withgoddess11192 ай бұрын

    Some of the comments 😀

  • @khalilsharif1452
    @khalilsharif145211 ай бұрын

    35:00

  • @DefinedCmajor
    @DefinedCmajor11 ай бұрын

    Iltam sumra rasupti elatim

  • @yurakolesnikov9725
    @yurakolesnikov97252 ай бұрын

    Nice Sumerian fouge D-minor😅

  • @user-mq5ln9tm8c
    @user-mq5ln9tm8c14 күн бұрын

    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

  • @marktonylindo4627
    @marktonylindo46274 ай бұрын

    You do not find this music it find s you .

  • @cynthiajantz9314
    @cynthiajantz9314 Жыл бұрын

    Michael: Elijah brought down fire from God and then slayed all the prophets of Baal! 1 Kings 18:21---40; KJV Holy Bible

  • @cynthiajantz9314

    @cynthiajantz9314

    Жыл бұрын

    The LORD God of Israel hates idolatry!

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @lo-fihi-ki5699
    @lo-fihi-ki569911 ай бұрын

    "plays music to weed plant"

  • @js1817

    @js1817

    11 ай бұрын

    Learn English and try again.

  • @broadmeadowsipuot7465
    @broadmeadowsipuot7465 Жыл бұрын

    I'm an old soul from ancient sumer, ASK ME ANYTHING!

  • @markesquivel3437

    @markesquivel3437

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@Leighton Lamb 2023 He partied like it was 999

  • @dairop3220

    @dairop3220

    Жыл бұрын

    @@markesquivel3437 999BC was after 1000BC ;)

  • @aqua0452

    @aqua0452

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dairop3220 lmfao

  • @elibailit1898
    @elibailit1898 Жыл бұрын

    me when u give me the aux

  • @pranabgill1310
    @pranabgill1310 Жыл бұрын

    There's no way to fact check this music.

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @CubicPlanets
    @CubicPlanets Жыл бұрын

    Hiii

  • @ninnghizhidda93
    @ninnghizhidda93 Жыл бұрын

    8 adds in 10 minutes? Seriously?

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    Жыл бұрын

    Sorry about this, but if this annoys you, there are no ads if you subscribe to KZread Premium (without these KZread 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)

  • @ninnghizhidda93

    @ninnghizhidda93

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @MichaelLevyMusic

    @MichaelLevyMusic

    Жыл бұрын

    I do have a Bandcamp site as well: michaellevy.bandcamp.com/ KZread automatically places these ads on non-premium subscription KZread, 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!

  • @ninnghizhidda93

    @ninnghizhidda93

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @ninnghizhidda93

    @ninnghizhidda93

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @birutybeiruty4469
    @birutybeiruty44692 ай бұрын

    🙄

  • @Questo-jg4fy
    @Questo-jg4fy7 ай бұрын

    🙄mesopotamian music for young people😌

  • @TheStrangeHermit
    @TheStrangeHermit2 ай бұрын

    Everyone just STFU with all the prophesizing in the comments. For fucks sake.. just enjoy the music.

  • @MrMartman777
    @MrMartman7772 жыл бұрын

    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.

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