On Jul 26, 2005, at 7:09 AM, bill kilpatrick wrote: > if the midi on the site you mentioned is anything to > go by, i'd say that from a musical point of view it > isn't very interesting at all.
I just listened to the MIDI files now. Wow, you would hardly identify those as the same song! Very different indeed. The Kilmer MIDI file goes at least twice as fast as the LP recording. > this harp that was mentioned, does anyone know how was > it tuned? In the Sounds of silence recording, I believe they used a Lyre based on a Syrian lyre dated 400 years later or so, as close as they could come. Yet another reconstruction: http://sonic-arts.org/monzo/babylonian/ hurrian/monzh6.htm To quote from this site: To say that 'there is some controversy' about the proper reconstruction of this piece is a vast understatement: since the first recognition that this tablet contained musical content, by H. G. Gu"terbock in 1970 (Revue d'Assyriologie), there have been no less than 9 different attempts at reconstruction, varying wildly: > if it is known, how does it relate to the earliest > recorded tuning of a stringed instrument from ancient > china? > > it would be wonderful if the lowest course of both > instruments started at the same pitch. Yeah, right. cheers, -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
