It is no surprise to anyone that The Simpsons, the longest-running series on television, has made history. But they truly made music history in the episode ‘Lost Our Lisa’ from Season 9 (first aired in 1998). Lisa Simpson, the intellectual in the family, and her ne’er-do-well father, Homer, have broken into the Springsonian Museum at night and are exploring the Egyptian exhibition. They stop in front of an exhibit, the mysterious Orb of Isis, which anthropologists have studied for years without lifting its secret. Homer tries to get a closer look, but in climbing over the velvet rope that holds visitors at bay he stumbles, and the rope poles hit the pedestal on which the sphere is placed. It falls to the floor, breaks open, and reveals itself to be an ancient Egyptian music box. In a plinky timbre, and ever so slightly out of tune, it plays a short piece in two voices, transcribed in Example 1. Lisa marvels: ‘And just think, we are the first people to hear its song in more than 4,000 years. [ ... ] The music we just heard might never be heard again.’ To which Homer replies, in a rare father-and-daughter bonding moment: ‘But it will always live on because we will never forget it.’ The solemnity of the scene is immediately dispelled when Homer begins to whistle a completely different tune – which Lisa identifies as the Old Spice song. Any remnant of the strange beauty of the Egyptian music in our memories is immediately wiped away by this new tune, which Homer and Lisa both sing lustily as they exit the museum, though not without setting off the alarm and getting chased out by dogs. This brilliant film sequence, barely two minutes long, sums up a lot that has been happening in musicology for the last few years. As part of a broader sonic turn, musicologists have started to examine musical instruments as historical sources. They have begun to liberate the soundbased knowledge that dwells inside the instruments, often under the banner of what came to

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电视上播出时间最长的电视剧《辛普森一家》创造了历史，这对任何人来说都不足为奇。但他们在第 9 季（1998 年首次播出）的“Lost Our Lisa”一集中真正创造了音乐历史。家庭中的知识分子丽莎·辛普森和她不合时宜的父亲荷马晚上闯入斯普林森博物馆，正在探索埃及展览。他们停在一个展品前，神秘的伊希斯之球，人类学家多年来一直在研究它，但没有揭开它的秘密。荷马试图仔细观察，但在爬过将游客挡在海湾的天鹅绒绳索时，他绊倒了，绳杆撞到了放置球体的基座。它掉在地上，裂开，露出一个古埃及的八音盒。在一个微妙的音色中，而且总是稍微走调，它以两种声音播放了一段短片，在示例 1 中转录。Lisa 惊叹道：“试想一下，我们是 4,000 多年来第一个听到这首歌的人。[ ... ] 我们刚刚听到的音乐可能再也听不到了。荷马在罕见的父女亲密时刻回答说：“但它会永远存在，因为我们永远不会忘记它。” 当荷马开始吹奏完全不同的曲调时，现场的庄严感立即被消除了——丽莎认为这是老香料的歌曲。在我们的记忆中，埃及音乐奇异之美的任何残余都会立即被这首新曲子抹去，荷马和丽莎在离开博物馆时都充满活力地唱着这首曲子，尽管这并非没有引起警报并被狗追赶。这部精彩的电影片段，短短两分钟，总结了过去几年音乐学中发生的很多事情。作为更广泛的声音转向的一部分，音乐学家开始将乐器作为历史来源进行研究。他们已经开始解放存在于乐器内部的基于声音的知识，通常打着什么来