The sound of music?
Of 4,500-year-old music, that is. Maybe. At least you can get a sense of the sounds that musical instruments from Sumer were capable of making by watching this YouTube video.
I haven’t been able to discover the basis on which the music itself was composed, and I can’t claim to know anything about ethnomusicological investigations of ancient Sumerian music.
There’s also a brief clip of someone playing the Ur harp reconstruction while another narrates Gilgamesh, but the narration is in English, not Sumerian.
1 comments Christopher Heard | ancient Near East, archaeology, music

Fascinating! It vaguely reminds me of the Middle Eastern music you sometimes hear today, and yet it is also wildly different.
These guys ought to team up with the fellow who translated “Blue Suede Shoes” into Sumerian.