by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Working It Out
Language: Akkadian
i-nu-ma i-lu a-wi-lum ub-lu du-ul-la iz-bi-lu šu-up-ši-ik-ka šu-up-ši-ik i-li [ra-bi-i]1 du-ul-lu-um ka-bi-it ma-a-a’d ša-ap-ša-qum [...] [...]
F. Rzewski sets lines 1-4
Confirmed with Alan Ralph Millard, “The Atrahasis Epic and Its Place in Babylonian Literature,” University of London, May 1966, p.21, excerpts from Tablet I.
1 F. Rzewski: "ra-bi-ma"Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, written c1647-1626 BCE, appears in Atraḥasis / Atrahasis / Atra-Hasis [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Frederic Rzewski (1938 - 2021), "Working It Out", 1998, copyright © 1999, lines 1-4 [ voice and piano ], from The Road: a novel for solo piano, no. 40, Sound Pool Music (BMI) [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2019-05-21
Line count: 6
Word count: 16