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Which Book Contains The Earliest Known Singing Quote?

2025-08-25 22:15:35 229

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Finn

2025-08-28 16:52:03

If you mean a printed or canonical 'book' that contains a quoted piece of singing, a good and defensible place to point at is 'Exodus' — specifically the 'Song of the Sea' in Exodus 15. That passage is often singled out by scholars as one of the oldest strata of Hebrew poetry preserved in the Bible, and it reads like something that would have been sung aloud in communal ritual. When I first dug into this stuff, I loved how the cadence and repetition felt like fragments of a very old performance, not just dry text on a page.

That said, the story gets messier and more interesting when you widen the definition. If you mean the earliest surviving musical composition or written music that was intended to be sung, then you want the so-called 'Hurrian Hymn No. 6' from Ugarit — a clay tablet with musical notation dating to around 1400 BCE. And if you want authored lyrical works that almost certainly were composed for singing, the hymns attributed to Enheduanna (around the 23rd century BCE) are among the oldest literary works we have and were likely performed. So depending on what you exactly mean by 'book' and by 'singing quote,' my pick shifts — for a canonical book with an embedded song: 'Exodus'; for the earliest notated melody or sung hymn: the Hurrian tablets or Enheduanna's compositions. I keep picturing those lines being sung around hearths and temple courtyards, which makes the whole ancient past feel closer and noisier to me.

Chloe

2025-08-29 00:59:16

I get a little giddy thinking about this question because it pulls together music, archaeology, and weird old texts. If you ask about the earliest quoted singing in a book-like text, 'Exodus' (that beautiful tight chunk in Exodus 15) is a strong candidate — it's compact, singable, and many commentators treat it as ancient performance poetry. I first encountered it read aloud in a searing choir recital, and you could feel how ancient the rhythms are.

But if we're picky about what counts as the 'earliest singing quote' — and I like being picky — the clay tablets from Ugarit yield the 'Hurrian Hymn No. 6', which is the oldest known piece of written music. That's not a book but a tablet, and people have reconstructed and recorded it, which is wild: you can actually hear something that tried to be sung three and a half millennia ago. Another route is Enheduanna's hymns, which are earlier than much of the Bible and read like songs to the goddess Inanna.

So I tend to answer depending on my mood: scholarly-precise, I point to the Hurrian hymn for actual musical notation; conversationally, I tell folks to check out the 'Song of the Sea' in 'Exodus' and to hunt down recordings of the Hurrian tune if they want the goosebumps.

Ezra

2025-08-31 14:02:35

I'm the sort of person who loves corner cases, so I’ll be blunt: there isn’t one single uncontested 'book' that holds the title unless you define your terms. For earliest written musical notation that was meant to be sung, the 'Hurrian Hymn No. 6' (Ugarit clay tablet, ~1400 BCE) is the oldest surviving example people actually play today. If you limit the field to what we think of as a book or scripture with a quoted song, 'Exodus' contains the ancient 'Song of the Sea' (Exodus 15), and the Hebrew Bible also preserves the 'Song of Deborah' in 'Judges'. If you go further back into Mesopotamian literature, Enheduanna’s hymns (c. 23rd century BCE) are among the earliest authored works that were likely sung. Each option tells you something different about how people used song — ritual, authorship, or preserved melody — and that variety is exactly why I keep coming back to this topic.

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