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  2. Music of Mesopotamia - Wikipedia

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    The proper names of certain Mesopotamian musical instruments are always accompanied by the divine determinative (𒀭, dingir) used for gods. [68] Furthermore, these instruments’ names appear in written lists of gods. [71] Franklin writes, "These were not symbols of the gods, but instantiations of some sort […] divinized cult-objects were ...

  3. Balag - Wikipedia

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    The balag instrument was known to accompany the city lament. [7] Over time, as city laments became associated with scribal schools , the balag was adapted for many different ritual uses. [ 7 ] As the city lament became more distant from ritual activity, the balag emerged as a distinct literary genre.

  4. List of keyboard instruments - Wikipedia

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    The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas , which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons , which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings.

  5. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  6. Lyres of Ur - Wikipedia

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    The Lyres of Ur or Harps of Ur is a group of four string instruments excavated in a fragmentary condition at the Royal Cemetery at Ur in Iraq from 1922 onwards. They date back to the Early Dynastic III Period of Mesopotamia, between about 2550 and 2450 BC, making them the world's oldest surviving stringed instruments. [1]

  7. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    The human voice is a musical instrument But It is not a visual object like a Guitar or a piano, it is the Sound produced by vocal cords of humans, which are produced by living things: vocal techniques: animal sound Hun: aerophones: 421.221.42: Korea: fipple flutes: ocarina Inci: aerophones: 421.221.12: Philippines: fipple flutes: tumpong Irish ...

  8. Musical keyboard - Wikipedia

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    A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale , with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave .

  9. Ancient music - Wikipedia

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    Ancient music refers to the musical cultures and practices that developed in the literate civilizations of the ancient world, succeeding the music of prehistoric societies and lasting until the post-classical era. Major centers of ancient music developed in China, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran/Persia, the Maya civilization, Mesopotamia, and Rome.

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