Music of the Ancient Sumerians, Egyptians & Greeks (De Organographia)

Music from c. 1950 B.C. to 300 A.D. (Including the world's oldest notated music) performed on voice, lyres, kithara, pandoura, double reed pipes, flutes & other ancient instruments.

Performers:
Ensemble De Organographia [Gayle Stuwe Neumann (strings, voice, percussion), Philip Neuman (winds, strings, percussion, voice)]

Track Titles
1. Musical Excerpts....Anon. (2nd c. AD)
2. Lament...Anon. (2nd or 3rd c. AD)
3. Fragment 1...Anon. (2nd c. AD)
4. Paean...Anon. (3rd or 4th c. AD)
5. Trochaic fragment....Anon. (3rd c. AD)
6. Four settings of a line from "Epitrepontes" by Menander...Anon.(3rd c.AD)
7. Excerpts mentioning Eros and Aphrodite...Anon. (2nd or 3rd c. AD)
8. Musical excerpt...Anon. (3rd c. AD)
9. Hypolydian excerpt...Anon. (2nd or 3rd c. AD)
10. Fragment 3...Anon. (3rd c. AD)
11. A zaluzi to the gods...Anon. (c. 1225 BC)
12. Hurrian Hymns 19 and 23...Anon. (c.1225 BC)
13. Hurrian Hymns 13 and 12...Urhiya/Anon. (c. 1225 BC)
14. Hurrian Hymn 2...Anon. (c. 1225 BC)
15. Hurrian Hymn 8...Urhiya (c. 1225 BC)
16. Hurrian Hymn 5...Puhiya(na) (c. 1225 BC)
17. Hurrian Hymns 4, 21 and 22... Anon. (c. 1225 BC)
18. Hurrian Hymns 7 and 10...Anon. (c. 1225 BC)
19. Hurrian Hymns 16 and 30...Anon. (c.1225 BC)
20. Musical Instructions for "Lipit-Ishtar, King of Justice" (c. 1950 BC)
21. Trumpet call...Anon./Plutarch
22. Isis sistrum rhythm...Anon./Apuleius
23. Theban banquet scene...Anon. (14th c. BC)
24./25. Harp pieces (A) (B)...Anon. (7th or 6th c. BC)

Playing time: 46' 45"