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Hurrian music, reinterpreted

June 2003

A musical score from Ugarit records an ancient Hurrian text with notations that can be interpreted as a score.

Included here are two preliminary new renderings of the Hurrian song from Ugarit, produced by V. J. Scordan.

The first is a solo rendering, with a reading of the Hurrian text as preserved in the musical tablet from Ugarit.

The second is a rendering of the same melody, but with a text in English which is not a translation of the original, but rather an imaginary text, composed by V. J. Scordan.

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