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I love the podcast. Thanks for the hard work you do researching and producing it. The Hurrian Hymn To Nikkal is fascinating. I took some music history in college but it began with the Western Tradition of the middle ages and I really thought that plain chant was the first notated music. Obviously I didn’t get too deep into music history. This hymn seems like it’s in a minor mode or scale but I wonder if it would be classified as any western scale? It does seem to have a tonal center and sounds a lot like some modern New… Read more »
Hi David! Thanks so much for listening. We’re trying to branch out of Europe when possible and we appreciate you noticing. Right now we are slowly putting the pieces together for an episode on music from Tang Dynasty China. The goal is to present recorded music that has survived in the order in which it was produced. As far as the tonality and mode of the ancient pieces we’ve discussed so far, it does seem that there is a shared understanding of the appropriate use of consonance and dissonance between fertile crescent cultures and early western findings, but as we’ve… Read more »