{"id":48961,"date":"2014-12-15T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/15\/now-rising-in-the-babylonian-top-60-charts.html"},"modified":"2014-12-15T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T19:47:10","slug":"now-rising-in-the-babylonian-top-60-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/15\/now-rising-in-the-babylonian-top-60-charts.html","title":{"rendered":"Now Rising in the Babylonian Top 60 Charts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this is interesting. I don&#39;t know enough on the subject matter to says whether she&#39;s doing anything close, but it&#39;s very cool nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Daniel Swensen<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>&quot;But how does one reincarnate music that no human voice has uttered for millennia? Conner says a key step was to really understand the language. She carefully studied historical analysis of the stresses and intonations of Babylonian and Sumerian for hints as to how it may have sounded, and researched how language is converted into music in similar Semitic languages. Then, after choosing and memorizing a piece of writing or poem, Conner collaborated with Lowings to create the melody.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/12\/what-did-ancient-babylonian-songs-sound-like-something-like-this\/\">http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/12\/what-did-ancient-babylonian-songs-sound-like-something-like-this\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/12\/what-did-ancient-babylonian-songs-sound-like-something-like-this\/comments\/#disqus'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/sywW-mHdKKoHJxHM-x_Pn3CMOImi8YanaeJKK3O0if5VUTqFTl0DesQ26XXdqmDJdhnmVi4LlEUBXXrQs99d0wo7OGEDYau4nXf7kXLr_rmH7TTM2yWXBD_PJQNfKVAZIWPk6SFWbw=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/12\/what-did-ancient-babylonian-songs-sound-like-something-like-this\/comments\/#disqus'>What did ancient Babylonian songs sound like? Something like this<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/idnKN5UJV5c'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this is interesting. I don&#39;t know enough on the subject matter to says whether she&#39;s doing anything close, but it&#39;s very cool nonetheless. Originally shared by +Daniel Swensen: &quot;But how does one reincarnate music that no human voice has uttered for millennia? Conner says a key step was to really understand the language. She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/15\/now-rising-in-the-babylonian-top-60-charts.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Now Rising in the Babylonian Top 60 Charts!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2672,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/20\/toy_soldiers.html","url_meta":{"origin":48961,"position":0},"title":"Toy soldiers","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-May-02 10:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"Steven Den Beste discusses some missed opportunities for AotC, and roasts Jedi (and Republic and Imperial) battle tactics. Instead, from the TV ads, what we get is a massive battle...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Media &amp; Culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Media &amp; Culture","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33014,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/02\/religious-roots.html","url_meta":{"origin":48961,"position":1},"title":"Religious Roots","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Apr-13 6:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As a companion piece to the +Yonatan Zunger\u00a0article I just shared (which is linked to at the bottom), a look at the history and fracturing of Judaism in ancient times, and how early Christianity ended up in pulling together many of the \"weird\" threads from those diverse foundations.It's fascinating because,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4831,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/23\/something_to_ma.html","url_meta":{"origin":48961,"position":2},"title":"Something to make even the most radical atheist love Christmas","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Dec-03 11:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"That folks like this hate it with a fervent passion. \"Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Religion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Religion","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22080,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/book-review-brain-movies-vol-1-by-harlan-ellison-2011.html","url_meta":{"origin":48961,"position":3},"title":"Book Review: &#8220;Brain Movies, Vol. 1&#8221; by Harlan Ellison (2011)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Aug-11 9:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Brain Movies, Vol. 1,\u00a0by Harlan Ellison My rating: 4 of 5 stars This privately published book contains reproductions of story treatments and scripts for some of Ellison's earliest work on \"The Outer Limits\" (\"Soldier,\" \"Demon with a Glass Hand\"), \"Twilight Zone\" (\"Paladin of the Lost Hour,\" \"Crazy as a Soup\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Babylon 5&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Babylon 5","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/media-tv-babylon-5"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/brain-movies_vol1-254x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":33356,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/movie-review-the-living-daylights-1987.html","url_meta":{"origin":48961,"position":4},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;The Living Daylights&quot; (1987)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 26-Apr-13 10:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Actually saw this over a week ago, wrote the review, but apparently never it save. \u00a0Weird. 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