- What is the oldest song in history?
- What is the oldest song still sung?
- What is the oldest song on Spotify?
- What is the oldest pop song?
What is the oldest song in history?
“Hurrian Hymn No. 6” is considered the world's earliest melody, but the oldest musical composition to have survived in its entirety is a first century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.” The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman's gravesite in Turkey.
What is the oldest song still sung?
The Hurrian Hymn was discovered in the 1950s on a clay tablet inscribed with Cuneiform text. It's the oldest surviving melody and is over 3,400 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.
What is the oldest song on Spotify?
The Hymn Of Ugarit (The Oldest Song In The World) - Single by Al-Pha-X | Spotify.
What is the oldest pop song?
10 Candidates for the World's First Pop Song
- "A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go" (c. ...
- "Home, Sweet Home" (1823) ...
- "O, Susanna!" (1848) ...
- "Old Folks at Home" (1851) ...
- "After the Ball" (1892) ...
- "My Gal is a High Born Lady" (1896) ...
- "I'll Never Smile Again" (1940) ...
- "To Know Him is to Love Him" (1958)