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Martin Litchfield West
British classicist whose 1994 article read the Hurrian texts as melody on a descending scale. 1937–2015.
Martin Litchfield West is british classical scholar (1937 to 2015), Oxford, author of Ancient Greek Music and of the 1994 melodic reading of the Hurrian texts (1937–2015), and appears in the record of Hurrian songs of Ugarit as british classicist whose 1994 article read the Hurrian texts as melody on a descending scale.
One event on the site involves West: West publishes a melodic reading on a descending scale; Gurney reconsiders the direction (1994).
Two questions rest in part on what West did or said, among them “Does the Babylonian tuning series, and so the h.6 scale, run upward or downward?”, which stands open: 3 answers, none ahead.
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The mystery British classicist whose 1994 article read the Hurrian texts as melody on a descending scale. · 1 event
Does the Babylonian tuning series, and so the h.6 scale, run upward or downward?Open: 3 answers, none ahead
What do the interval names and numerals in the notation of h.6 instruct a performer to play?Open: 5 answers, none ahead
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Mysteries Department. (2026). Martin Litchfield West [Person FIG0DEDPES4Y7AW]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DEDPES4Y7AW
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