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  2. Hurrian songs - Wikipedia

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    Ugarit, where the Hurrian songs were found. The complete song is one of about 36 such hymns in cuneiform writing, found on fragments of clay tablets excavated in the 1950s from the Royal Palace at Ugarit (present-day Ras Shamra, Syria), [5] in a stratum dating from the fourteenth century BC, [6] but is the only one surviving in substantially complete form.

  3. Seikilos epitaph - Wikipedia

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    The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation. [1] [2] Commonly dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD, the inscription was found engraved on a pillar from the ancient Hellenistic town of Tralles (present-day Turkey) in 1883.

  4. Richard Dumbrill (musicologist) - Wikipedia

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    Dumbrill offers another interpretation of the Hurrian songs, the oldest music ever written, which was found in northwest Syria at the site of Ugarit. He reconstructed the Silver lyre of Ur (at the British Museum), from Woolley's notes, with Myriam Marcetteau. Dumbrill also reconstructed the Elamite harp of the battle of Ulai, with Margaux Bousquet.

  5. Music of Mesopotamia - Wikipedia

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    Hurrian Hymn No. 6, the "Hymn to Nikkal", is considered to be the oldest surviving substantially complete written music in the world. [136] At least five interpretations of this tablet have been made in an attempt to reconstruct the music, [ 137 ] notably by Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin, Raoul Vitale , and others.

  6. History of music - Wikipedia

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    The oldest surviving written music is the Hurrian songs from Ugarit, Syria. Of these, the oldest is the Hymn to Nikkal (hymn no. 6; h. 6), which is somewhat complete and dated to c. 1400 BCE. [69] However, the Seikilos epitaph is the earliest entirely complete noted musical composition.

  7. 2nd millennium BC in music - Wikipedia

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    c. 1400 BC - Hurrian songs, the oldest musical notation, is written in the ancient Amorite-Canaanite city of Ugarit. [5] [6] [7] See also. Timeline of musical events;

  8. This is the oldest Christmas carol (Hint: It’s not 'Silent ...

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  9. Anne Draffkorn Kilmer - Wikipedia

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    Anne Draffkorn Kilmer made many of her most important contributions to fields that she called “music archaeology” and “Mesopotamian music theory.” Kilmer is credited with deciphering the oldest known recorded piece of music, a 3,400 year old hymn from the Syrian city of Ugarit .