# Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin · Person

> Belgian musicologist who proposed a melodic reading of h.6 (1975, 1980, 1984) and explained its repeated syllables by the tablet's spiral layout. In The…

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# Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin

Belgian musicologist who proposed a melodic reading of h.6 (1975, 1980, 1984) and explained its repeated syllables by the tablet's spiral layout. **1911–1999.**

[The Hurrian songs of Ugarit](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs)[2 sources]

Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin is belgian musicologist and organologist of the ancient Near East (1911 to 1999), University of Liège (1911–1999), and appears in the record of Hurrian songs of Ugarit as belgian musicologist who proposed a melodic reading of h.6 (1975, 1980, 1984) and explained its repeated syllables by the tablet's spiral layout.

Three questions rest in part on what Duchesne-Guillemin did or said, among them “What do the interval names and numerals in the notation of h.6 instruct a performer to play?”, which stands open: 5 answers, none ahead.

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## In the mysteries

**The Hurrian songs of Ugarit**

Belgian musicologist who proposed a melodic reading of h.6 (1975, 1980, 1984) and explained its repeated syllables by the tablet's spiral layout.

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs)

[What do the interval names and numerals in the notation of h.6 instruct a performer to play?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBCYE714/what-do-the-interval-names-and-numerals-in-the-notation-of-h)Open: 5 answers, none ahead

[Are the syllables repeated at the ends of lines in h.6 refrains, or an artefact of the spiral layout?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVH8B8A7W/are-the-syllables-repeated-at-the-ends-of-lines-in-h-6)No evidence yet: No evidence yet

[Do the numerals after each interval name count repetitions, notes or durations?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVH05XNA4/do-the-numerals-after-each-interval-name-count-repetitions)No evidence yet: No evidence yet

## Sources 2

[Les problèmes de la notation hourrite](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHSRWKNZB/les-problemes-de-la-notation-hourrite)

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[A Hurrian Musical Score from Ugarit: The Discovery of Mesopotamian Music](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ87SD3NA/a-hurrian-musical-score-from-ugarit-the-discovery-of)

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Born

1911

Died

1999

Occupation

musicologist, proposer of a melodic reading

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Belgian musicologist and organologist of the ancient Near East (1911 to 1999), University of Liège

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