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To: BenLurkin
There's a whole lotta guessin' goin' on...

The ground bass may or may not have been the way a song would have been put together 2500+ years ago, the melody may or may not have been that wide-ranging and lilting, and we can be sure that the voice would not have been reverbed. It sounds like a kind of Corinne Mammama-ization of what might or might not be the sound of pre-Greek-scales-sounding music. I don't mind it by any means, but let's admit what it is, pure speculation based on the intonations of a nonspoken language and the vibrations of a lyre built from the design on paintings.

8 posted on 12/16/2014 12:04:32 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

Great post!


10 posted on 12/16/2014 12:07:36 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: chajin
I don't mind it by any means, but let's admit what it is, pure speculation based on the intonations of a nonspoken language and the vibrations of a lyre built from the design on paintings.

Agreed. It is, however, somewhat reminiscent of the sound of Israeli folk music.

11 posted on 12/16/2014 12:10:13 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: chajin
Did you say BASS?
13 posted on 12/16/2014 12:22:14 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods burn. When whites riot, nations and CONTINENTS burn))
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To: chajin
what it is, pure speculation

Of course, it is speculation because it must be.

I sincerely appreciate their efforts to speculate on how it might of sounded.

I assume we each can speculate on what we think it sounded like. So far, this is the only time I've heard it done rather than just talk about doing it.

I say thank you for their effort that went into the speculation.

16 posted on 12/16/2014 12:44:47 PM PST by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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