What did ancient Babylonian songs sound like? ⇒
6 January 2015, late at night
But how does one reincarnate music that no human voice has uttered for millennia? Conner says a key step was to really understand the language. She carefully studied historical analysis of the stresses and intonations of Babylonian and Sumerian for hints as to how it may have sounded, and researched how language is converted into music in similar Semitic languages.
The music is quite haunting. Well worth listening to.
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