{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F4b7e2242-ad29-426b-829d-d2156a45bf4f","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Listening to the Oldies - Ep 62","description":"This week, Anna and Amber sing you a little tune about musical instruments in the archaeological record, and the ways that we can access ancient music today. From the discoveries of the earliest known flutes, to jamming out with Homer, to some mind-blowing takes on sound and silence, consider it our first movement in this composition. \n\nLinks\n\nScales from Around the World (How Music Really Works)\n\nA Biological Rationale for Musical Scales (PLOSOne)\n\nA Voice from the Past (The New Yorker)\n\nThe European Music Archaeology Project Recreates Instruments of Old (New York Times)\n\nIce and Longboats: Ancient Music of Scandinavia (European Music Archaeology Project, Volume 2)\n\nAncient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like (The Conversation)\n\n8 Oldest Musical Instruments in the World (Oldest.org)\n\nBrookhaven Lab Expert Helps Date Flute Thought to be Oldest Playable Musical Instrument (Brookhaven National Laboratory)\n\nOldest Greek Fragment of Homer Discovered on Clay Tablet (Smithsonian)\n\nSing like you mean it! - the Linguistics of Tonal Languages\n\nListen to Sappho Read By Stephen G. Daitz (The New Yorker Podcast)\n\nHear What Homer\u2019s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek (Open Culture)\n\nHomer Multitext Project \n\nWe can tell where a whale has travelled from the themes in its song (New Scientist)\n\n\nContactEmail the Dirt Podcast","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/dddd1215-eeb0-4139-b885-732091a9088a/uploads-2f1612927465714-puvwh93kw2-3b3c967815ee02703f7cfe1c7eed.jpg"}