estebanana -> Lyres of ancient Ur and other stuff (Mar. 2 2025 14:30:18)
The wacky world of archeomusicology
I’ve been into this for a long time. These bull headed lyres were found in royal tombs of ancient Babylonians and Assyrians. There have been many reconstructions of the lyres starting in the 1960’s. There are cuneiform tablets with musical notation which have been translated and transcribed, the music is playable.
Some reconstructionists take more liberties than others, but find most them interesting whether they are probable or not.
estebanana -> RE: Lyres of ancient Ur and other stuff (Mar. 2 2025 14:49:50)
Ricardo -> RE: Lyres of ancient Ur and other stuff (Mar. 2 2025 19:06:06)
I like how the fingering is stopping strings you don’t want ringing and then tons of rasgueado.
estebanana -> RE: Lyres of ancient Ur and other stuff (Mar. 2 2025 19:42:59)
One of these lyres needs a transducer and a foot pedal rack of effects to work in a metal band.
Metllyrica or The Great Bulls maybe Urlyrium ?
estebanana -> RE: Lyres of ancient Ur and other stuff (Mar. 3 2025 13:58:00)
This stuff is wild, skip to the middle to avoid the discussion-
They are not trying to reconstruct ancient music, but making an interpretation using the language and the musical sequences that is modern but limited in scope by what they think are the tunings and techniques used 5000 years ago - plus soprano on cocaine which is always fun
