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An Old Babylonian Treatise on the Tuning of the Harp

O. R. Gurney, 1968.

MYS0DEDNECH6EYX · mystery · click to copyMHurrian songs of UgaritArticledoi: 10.2307/41998530

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Iraq 30 (1968), 229-233. First publication of the Ur tuning text U.7/80 (UET VII 74), which gives the cycle of seven tunings by raising or lowering one string at a time; the key that made the h.6 terms readable as tunings and intervals.

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O. R. Gurney (1968). An Old Babylonian Treatise on the Tuning of the Harp. https://doi.org/10.2307/4199853
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