# Raoul Gregory Vitale 1982: La musique suméro-accadienne: gamme et notation musicale

> Raoul Gregory Vitale, 1982. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Ugarit-Forschungen 14 (1982), 241-263. Vitale's argument that the Babylonian…

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# La musique suméro-accadienne: gamme et notation musicale

Raoul Gregory Vitale, 1982.

**Hurrian songs of Ugarit** Article0

## What it's used for here

Ugarit-Forschungen 14 (1982), 241-263. Vitale's argument that the Babylonian tuning series and the h.6 notation run downward, not upward, reversing the first reconstructions; later accepted by West and taken seriously by Gurney. URL is a locator (biographical page listing the article); the journal has no DOI for this volume.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[The ascending reading rested on an assumed direction of string change that the text does not give.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/evidence/EVD0DEDZ6T99EVR/the-ascending-reading-rested-on-an-assumed-direction-of)

Evidence

EVD

[The tuning text does not state whether the altered string is tightened or loosened, so the original ascending reading…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/evidence/EVD0DEDZ669WSCE/the-tuning-text-does-not-state-whether-the-altered-string-is)

Evidence

EVD

[Vitale argues the Babylonian scale and the h.6 notation run downward](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/events/EVT0DEDRFKH4VVQ/vitale-argues-the-babylonian-scale-and-the-h-6-notation-run)

EVT

[Raoul Gregory Vitale](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/people/FIG0DEDPEN4JC9T/raoul-gregory-vitale)

FIG

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

The mystery article

MYS

[Does the Babylonian tuning series, and so the h.6 scale, run upward or downward?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBJK95SB/does-the-babylonian-tuning-series-and-so-the-h-6-scale-run)

Question

QST

## Cite it

```
Raoul Gregory Vitale (1982). La musique suméro-accadienne: gamme et notation musicale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Gregory_Vitale
```

[Find it at en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Gregory_Vitale)

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