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Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 115/2 (1971), 131-149. Kilmer's synthesis of the three theory texts (CBS 10996, UET VII 74, Nabnitu XXXII) into a nine-string, seven-note system with fourteen named string pairs.
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Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
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Anne Draffkorn Kilmer (1971). The Discovery of an Ancient Mesopotamian Theory of Music. https://www.jstor.org/stable/985853
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. “The Discovery of an Ancient Mesopotamian Theory of Music.” 1971.