Episode 10: How Has Music Changed over History? ft. Dr Anna Scott.

Paleolithic flute made from a vulture bone 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUCBBDV2Tzk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBUFRmQ4eso 

Hurrian hymn #6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBhB9gRnIHE 


Ancient Greek music - the work of Armand D’Angour on reconstructing hymns and sections of dramatic chorus https://youtu.be/4hOK7bU0S1Y 

Earliest surviving complete piece of composition is the Seikilos epitaph c.100ad from Turkey. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%CE%9F_%CE%95%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%A3%CE%B5%E1%BF%96%CE%BA%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%85_-_Epitaph_of_Seikilos.ogg

Indian Hindu vedic arts - the Samaveda - 1000BC - sections of the Rigveda set to a melody and chanted http://www.vedchant.com/Yajur.mp3 

Chinese Xun - like egg flutes made of clay. Oldest are about 5000bc . https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ARecording_of_Xun.ogg 

Solitary Orchid in the Stone Tablet Mode - written for the guqin in 7thC AD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPqX2rgCAok 

Synaulia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJLXyBzMci0

Musica Romana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC4KqvAhqFA 

Music of the Middle Ages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgHzH5iDcGQ

Le Jeu De Robin Et Marion by Adam de le Halle, troubadour in the 13thC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCIx07t14jw

Hildegard of Bingen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei88J4lERbk

Hermann of Reichenau 11thC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Petits_Chanteurs_de_Passy_-_Salve_Regina_de_Hermann_Contract.ogg 

John Dowland - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRrzAo9Wl4

"A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp86xtRUokA

Baroque:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLj_gMBqHX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dYNttdgl0

Classical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FSN8_pp_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3Vmo_EM8Y












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