# Bathja Bayer 2014: The Mesopotamian Theory of Music and the Ugarit Notation: a Reexamination

> Bathja Bayer, 2014. 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Yuval 8 (2014), written 1978 and published posthumously, with an editorial note by Rahn…

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# The Mesopotamian Theory of Music and the Ugarit Notation: a Reexamination

Bathja Bayer, 2014.

**Hurrian songs of Ugarit** Article0

## What it's used for here

Yuval 8 (2014), written 1978 and published posthumously, with an editorial note by Rahn and a response by Kilmer. Bayer counts about eight rival transcriptions by 1978, judges that the problem was not solved, and argues the Ugarit notation is a separate channel from the Mesopotamian tradition rather than a later stage of it. Open PDF.

## Cited by on this site 7 records

[A reading-by-reading comparison of the realizations from 1971 to 2019 finds that each adds tempo, metre, scale…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/evidence/EVD0DEDZ4MQF6YV/a-reading-by-reading-comparison-of-the-realizations-from)

Evidence

EVD

[Bayer's argument that the Ugarit notation was a separate channel from the Mesopotamian tradition leaves room for a…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/evidence/EVD0DEDZ5T6J47Q/bayers-argument-that-the-ugarit-notation-was-a-separate)

Evidence

EVD

[No Mesopotamian song survives in the Ugarit layout of words over a notation block, and the Ugarit terms appear in…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/evidence/EVD0DEEB439TQD2/no-mesopotamian-song-survives-in-the-ugarit-layout-of-words)

Evidence

EVD

[Kilmer publishes the Nippur list of fourteen string pairs, CBS 10996](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/events/EVT0DEDR0MEZXTF/kilmer-publishes-the-nippur-list-of-fourteen-string-pairs)

EVT

[Laroche publishes the first Hurrian fragments from Ugarit](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/events/EVT0DEDR0E8WEJF/laroche-publishes-the-first-hurrian-fragments-from-ugarit)

EVT

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

The mystery article

MYS

[Is the Ugarit notation the same system as the Mesopotamian theory texts describe, or a local adaptation?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBZTCN1T/is-the-ugarit-notation-the-same-system-as-the-mesopotamian)

Question

QST

## Cite it

```
Bathja Bayer (2014). The Mesopotamian Theory of Music and the Ugarit Notation: a Reexamination. https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/en/yuval/22863
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[Find it at jewish-music.huji.ac.il](https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/en/yuval/22863)

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