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This volume analyses eight cuneiform texts of Ancient Near-Eastern
Music theory, essential to the understanding of Ancient Semitic
Music, to a level never achieved before. The author explains why
previous interpretations had been misapprehended because they were
analysed with Western musicological methods, and addresses these
problems.
A Concise Treatise on Sumerian and Babylonian Music Theory
including the following texts: 1 - nabn
This book is a catalogue of the idiophones acquired by the
Department of the Near East of the British Museum since the
mid-nineteenth century. It includes clay rattles principally from
Ur, dating from the third millennium BC; shell clappers; copper and
bronze clappers and cymbals from Nimrud and from other prestigious
locations and a remarkable collection of bronze bells mainly from
Nimrud, unearthed by Layard around 1850. The book gives an accurate
description of the objects along with former references and a
comprehensive bibliography.
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