Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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The earliest fragment of musical notation is found on a 4,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablet, which includes instructions and tunings for a hymn honoring the ruler Lipit-Ishtar. But for the title of oldest extant song, most historians point to “Hurrian Hymn No.
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Read More »The history of music is as old as humanity itself. Archaeologists have found primitive flutes made of bone and ivory dating back as far as 43,000 years, and it’s likely that many ancient musical styles have been preserved in oral traditions. When it comes to specific songs, however, the oldest known examples are relatively more recent. The earliest fragment of musical notation is found on a 4,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablet, which includes instructions and tunings for a hymn honoring the ruler Lipit-Ishtar. But for the title of oldest extant song, most historians point to “Hurrian Hymn No. 6,” an ode to the goddess Nikkal that was composed in cuneiform by the ancient Hurrians sometime around the 14th century B.C. The clay tablets containing the tune were excavated in the 1950s from the ruins of the city of Ugarit in Syria. Along with a near-complete set of musical notations, they also include specific instructions for how to play the song on a type of nine-stringed lyre. “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” is considered the world’s earliest melody, but the oldest musical composition to have survived in its entirety is a first century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.” The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman’s gravesite in Turkey. “I am a tombstone, an image,” reads an inscription. “Seikilos placed me here as an everlasting sign of deathless remembrance.” The column also includes musical notation as well as a short set of lyrics that read: “While you live, shine / Have no grief at all / Life exists only for a short while / And time demands its toll.” The well-preserved inscriptions on Seikilos Epitaph have allowed modern musicians and scholars to recreate its plaintive melodies note-for-note. Dr. David Creese of the University of Newcastle performed it using an eight-stringed instrument played with a mallet, and ancient music researcher Michael Levy has recorded a version strummed on a lyre. There have also been several attempts to decode and play “Hurrian Hymn No. 6,” but because of difficulties in translating its ancient tablets, there is no definitive version. One of the most popular interpretations came in 2009, when Syrian composer Malek Jandali performed the ancient hymn with a full orchestra.
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Read More »The longest single song on Spotify is yeule's “The Things They Did For Me Out of Love.”
Spotify has checked their boxes with this one, as the longest song on Spotify is also the longest song ever recorded. This song is known as “Symphony of the Crown” by the Canadian artist Earthena, totaling 48 hours, 39 minutes, and 43 seconds. Released in October 2021, Earthena’s epic overtook PC III’s 2016 song “The Rise and Fall of Bossanova,” totaling 13 hours, 23 minutes, and 32 seconds as the Guinness World Record holder for the World’s Longest Officially Released Song. However, the version of “Symphony of the Crown” that is on Spotify is actually split up into 25 parts that are 2 hours each, which means that it isn’t technically the longest single track on Spotify. “The Rise and Fall of Bossanova” is also split up in this way, with the longest section being 4 hours, 20 minutes, and 54 seconds long. That makes “Bossanova” longer than “Symphony of the Crown,” as far as Spotify goes, but there is still one Spotify track that is longer. The longest single song on Spotify is yeule’s “The Things They Did For Me Out of Love.” Running a grand total of 4 hours and 44 minutes, the ambient track was released as the final track on her February 2022 album Glitch Princess. One more, just for fun — Spotify also includes the longest Grateful Dead song ever recorded, which is the “Playing In The Band” from 5/21/74, with a runtime of 46 minutes, 31 seconds. Check out the longest music on Spotify below, and if you’re curious, we’ve also got a post about the oldest song on Spotify.
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