Aficionados of far-flung music won't want to miss this
bravura lyre solo, interpreting the alleged oldest extant written melody, a Hurrian hymn to the moon goddess Nikkal from c. 1400 B.C. More information is
here, though I find myself still very unclear how the Cuneiform is taken to be signifying melodic notation. It's good stuff, though, and if you browse around the
performer's Youtube channel, you'll find all kinds of delights, from a quite nice rendition of the
Song of Seikilos to lost Hungarian klezmer and "Jewgrass."
Hat tip to Never Yet Melted, via Steve.
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