Listen to the ancient song that has been recreated for the first time in the last thousand years
“If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?” – one of the oft-quoted Roman…
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Listen to the ‘reincarnated’ song presented entirely in ancient Babylonian
Alluding to a rare career graph, Stef Conner, after completing her degree in music composition, was gravitated towards the veritable trove of ancient Babylonian literature…
Listen to the earliest surviving secular English song, dated from 13th century AD
A few days ago, we talked about the world’s oldest known secular Norse song. Well, this time around, shifting our focus to another Germanic language…
Listen to the world’s oldest known secular Norse song from Codex Runicus – a medieval manuscript written in runes
Codex Runicus, the medieval manuscript dating from circa 1300 AD, comprises around 202 pages composed in runic characters. Known for its content of the Scanian…
Listen to what is most likely the first computer-generated song ever recorded
Alan Turing, the man widely hailed as the father of modern computing, was also a brilliant music innovator, according to a team of researchers from…
Listen to the 500-year old ‘butt’ song from the medieval hell of Hieronymus Bosch
Fantastic imagery, intricate landscapes intertwined with religious overtones – this in a nutshell defines the works of Hieronymus Bosch, one of the renowned proponents of…
Lost songs of holocaust survivors played with the aid of a repaired WWII-era wire recorder
A wire recorder can prove to be one of the poignant objects relating to the wars of mankind, by virtue of its historicity. In that…
