# Jay Rahn 2011: The Hurrian Pieces, ca. 1350 BCE: Part One, Notation and Analysis

> Jay Rahn, 2011. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Analytical Approaches to World Music 1/1 (2011). Statistical analysis of the string-pair terms…

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# The Hurrian Pieces, ca. 1350 BCE: Part One, Notation and Analysis

Jay Rahn, 2011.

**Hurrian songs of Ugarit** Article0

## What it's used for here

Analytical Approaches to World Music 1/1 (2011). Statistical analysis of the string-pair terms across all 35 Hurrian fragments without assuming Western interval ratios: pairs spanning 2 mod 7 outnumber those spanning 3 mod 7, and among 43 adjacent successions 32 rise by one string and 11 fall. Open access.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[The fragmentary Hurrian songs h.2 to h.30 (RS 19.164 and others)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/artifacts/ART0DEDRY95C54W/the-fragmentary-hurrian-songs-h-2-to-h-30-rs-19-164-and)

ART

[Across the fragments, adjacent terms tend to be related by a single string step (32 of 43 adjacent 2-mod-7 successions…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/evidence/EVD0DEDYK1G2996/across-the-fragments-adjacent-terms-tend-to-be-related-by-a)

Evidence

EVD

[Corpus statistics across the 35 fragments constrain string relations but, by their author's own account, not pitch or…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/evidence/EVD0DEDZ4ZAC38K/corpus-statistics-across-the-35-fragments-constrain-string)

Evidence

EVD

[No Mesopotamian or Ugaritic source states that the two strings of a named pair were sounded together, and two-part…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/evidence/EVD0DEDYGWZKN3G/no-mesopotamian-or-ugaritic-source-states-that-the-two)

Evidence

EVD

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

The mystery article

MYS

[What do the interval names and numerals in the notation of h.6 instruct a performer to play?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBCYE714/what-do-the-interval-names-and-numerals-in-the-notation-of-h)

Question

QST

## Cite it

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Jay Rahn (2011). The Hurrian Pieces, ca. 1350 BCE: Part One, Notation and Analysis. https://oldaawmjournal.iftawm.org/articles/2011a/Rahn_AAWM_Vol_1_1.pdf
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