Blog Heap o'Art of Links 16 September 2016

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Edward Albee, dead at 88
Robert Simonson, Playbill Fri 2016-Sep-16 8:23pm

Edward Albee, the author of dozens of bitingly funny and scabrously caustic dramas, and one of the most important American playwrights for much of the last fifty years, died September 16 at age 88. He passed away peacefully at his home in Montauk, NY, following a short illness, according to his longtime personal assistant, Jakob Holder.…

World's Oldest Melody
Ann Althouse Fri 2016-Sep-16 6:45pm

Listen to the oldest melody in the world — 3400 years old.
"The hymn was discovered on a clay tablet in Ugarit, now part of modern-day Syria, and is dedicated the Hurrians’ goddess of the orchards Nikkal...."

The clay tablet text, which was discovered alongside around 30 other tablet fragments, specifies 9 lyre strings and the intervals between those strings – kind of like an ancient guitar tab..... The notation here is essentially a set of instructions for intervals and tuning based around a heptatonic diatonic scale.…

Video: creative*funnel, YouTube, 1:59 - and beautiful, too.