Western Classical Music: Where did it come from and how did it "get that way?" We think we can answer the first question in two episodes, but the second one... well, you could build an entire show around that!

Today, we trace the origins of WCM from the earliest notated fragments in the world to the first named composers in history. Join us as we overturn the claim that "Not a note of music has survived from the ancient world," and find out what deck-sanding and kosher lunch meats have in common (the answer will shock you!)

CAVEAT 1: Correction: "Alexanders successors," not "Alexander's descendants"

CAVEAT 2: Greek persecution of the Jews was almost exclusively under Antiochus IV, but it was severe.

CAVEAT 3: The musical setting for the hymn to Caliope and Zeus stretches credibility. I mean, it does kinda sound like "Hush, Little Baby," doesn't it? The language is ancient though and, like we've said, the ancients are always surprising us. ;-)

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EARLY NOTATION LINKS

What do we know about the oldest found melody? - Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange

https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/91048/what-do-we-know-about-the-oldest-found-melody

The World's Oldest Surviving Music from circa 1950 BC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAPC1tG2BKY&themeRefresh=1

(PDF) A Musical and Mathematical Context for CBS 1766 | leon crickmore - Academia.edu

https://www.academia.edu/1618638/A_Musical_and_Mathematical_Context_for_CBS_1766

The Oldest Known Melody (Hurrian Hymn no.6 - c.1400 B.C.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpxN2VXPMLc&themeRefresh=1

History's Oldest Song Modernized for 2020 (Samurai Guitarist)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHGB8dS1OsI&themeRefresh=1

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ANCIENT HEBREW MUSIC LINKS

The Origins of the Israelites: Episode 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ao1i7LokM&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=6

The Pagan Origins of Judaism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZECezMYug8c&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=4&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB

What Music might Moses have heard as a Child in Egypt?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At7jUZquUc0

King David's Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiA86HI-GLU&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=12

Jerusalem Shofar at Sunrise

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

The Sound of the Shofar calls us to worship

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

The original musical notes found in the Old Testament, played right before your eyes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh2KwEwaroc&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=19

The Original 3000 Year Old Melody of the Psalm 19 - Revealed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M86lEfmVsEY&t=30s

Chanticleer - Psalms 23:1-6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOZ3SjHIUzw

Lost Melodies - Hebrew Chanting - Psalm 95

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfF8fr5stY

Choral singing in ancient Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06rIvIBoNfM

Trio Mandili - Psalm 50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcbKoY7XpJE

Mendelssohn: Variations Concertantes, Op. 17

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

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ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC LINKS

"Minoan" Lyre - Improvisation by Claudio Quadros

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0GzWKUQAJU

Minoan Theater - The Minoan Experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe_RsPWIOro&t=6s

Ancient Minoan Civilization ("Creep" by Radiohead)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz3d5x-MUT4

Hymn to Zeus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc109u7Zw8M&list=PLE619C0863B707DDD&index=4

Ancient Lyre - Kleopas : Hymn to muse Kalliope and Apollo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Hpyov3Tt8

Rediscovering Ancient Greek Music: A performance reconstructs the past

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAmuQBnNty8&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=29

Cithara of the Golden Age - Michael Levy - Luthieros Music instruments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t1itGJ8Zpc

Ancient Lyre - Barbiton Lyre of Sappho - Barbiton Lyre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWLRqI9iM-E

Roman water organ performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US50QmZaeyE

Eminem straight up reciting the iliad of homer in ancient greek (video by @GavMac39)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ubSwbyd0uI

KANUN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy-Xvzi2YAM

Musique de la Grèce antique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1z0zaGDzlQ

The Euripides Orestes Chorus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c2Ho9NvWY8

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