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Babylon human voice4/11/2023 So she teamed up with Andy Lowings, who reconstructs ancient instruments and plays a mean lyre, a musical instrument with strings that resembles a harp. The tunes played an important part in rituals in Mesopotamian societies, from funerals to lullabies, Conner says. Many of these poems and snatches of writings were sung and chanted, according to historians. She wanted to know what these languages sounded like, to summon life from stone. That's a good thing for Conner, who after completing a degree in music composition got deeply interested in Babylonian literature and poetry-which was originally recorded in cuneiform, wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets.īut the words on the paper, the modern incarnations of these mineral etchings, were not enough for Conner.
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