Sound Postcard

Mayor, A. (2022, August 3). From whistling arrows and trumpeting elephants to battle cries and eerie horns, ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/from-whistling-arrows-and-trumpeting-elephants-to-battle-cries-and-eerie-horns-ancient-soldiers-used-sound-to-frighten-and-confuse-their-enemies-182116

Alexander driving off elephants with pigs and musical instruments in a detail from a French illuminated manuscript from 1420. 'Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre,' The British Library

Listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVFGT2NX-YQ&feature=share&utm_source=EJGixIgBCJiu2KjB4oSJEQ

To learn more:

Hear the world’s oldest instrument, the 50,000-year-old neanderthal flute

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/flute/worlds-oldest-instrument-neanderthal-flute/ 

"Hurrian Hymn no. 6" (c.1400BCE) - Ancient Mesopotamian Musical Fragment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64aouN2oohM&feature=share&utm_source=EJGixIgBCJiu2KjB4oSJEQ

The Simpsons Orb of Isis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv55j2hyzLE&feature=share&utm_source=EJGixIgBCJiu2KjB4oSJEQ

Throat singing from different continents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPSq-_jOLJ4&feature=share&utm_source=EJGixIgBCJiu2KjB4oSJEQ

Nutcracker Man - Divulgando la investigación sobre evolución humana | Outreaching the human evolution research

https://nutcrackerman.com/2016/01/12/the-10-oldest-musical-instruments/

World's Oldest Musical Instruments

https://spinditty.com/industry/Worlds-Oldest-Musical-Instruments

Gilgamesh lament for Enkidu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd7qeP3R5vw&feature=share&utm_source=EJGixIgBCJiu2KjB4oSJEQ 

Cornu de Pompeii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IlZgj2FAHA&feature=share&utm_source=EJGixIgBCJiu2KjB4oSJEQ 

The Sound of the Trenches - Instruments of war

https://www.europeana.eu/en/exhibitions/the-sound-of-the-trenches/instruments-of-war 

Musical Instrument

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/musical_instrument

The Music of War

https://www.historynet.com/the-music-of-war/?f

8 Oldest Musical Instruments in the World

https://www.oldest.org/music/musical-instruments/