Babylonian Music Again

O. R. Gurney, 1994.

Hurrian songs of UgaritArticledoi: 10.2307/42003870

What it's used for here

Iraq 56 (1994), 101-106. Gurney reviews the tuning-text interpretation and accepts that Vitale's downward reading of the scale deserves serious consideration.

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The ascending reading rested on an assumed direction of string change that the text does not give.

Evidence

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The tuning text does not state whether the altered string is tightened or loosened, so the original ascending reading…

Evidence

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Vitale argues the Babylonian scale and the h.6 notation run downward

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West publishes a melodic reading on a descending scale; Gurney reconsiders the direction

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Oliver Robert Gurney

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The Hurrian songs of Ugarit

The mystery article

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Does the Babylonian tuning series, and so the h.6 scale, run upward or downward?

Question

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Cite it

O. R. Gurney (1994). Babylonian Music Again. https://doi.org/10.2307/4200387

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. “Babylonian Music Again.” 1994. https://doi.org/10.2307/4200387.