Echoes of Ancient Ugarit

This unique video, features my brand new arrangement for solo lyre, in the beautifully pure just intonation of antiquity, of Dr Richard Dumbrill’s magnificant interpretation of the 3400 year old “Hurrian Hymn Text H6“ - track 1 from my new compilation album of solo lyre music, “Musical Adventures in Time Travel“. The Hurrian Hymn (catalogued as Text H6) was discovered in Ugarit, Syria, in the early 1950s, and was preserved for 3400 years on a clay tablet, written in the Cuniform text of the ancient Hurrian language - except from a few earlier Sumarian fragmentary instructional musical texts from BCE (Musical Instructions for Lipit-Ishtar, King of Justice) the Hurrian Hymn it is the oldest written song yet known, in History! Although about 29 musical texts were discovered at Ugarit, only this text, (text H6), was in a sufficient state of preservation to allow for modern academic musical reconstruction. In short, the Cuneiform text clearly indicated specific name