Old Babylonian Musical Instructions Relating to Hymnody

Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, Miguel Civil, 1986.

Hurrian songs of UgaritArticledoi: 10.2307/13599530

What it's used for here

Journal of Cuneiform Studies 38 (1986), 94-98. Old Babylonian fragments from Nippur that give instructions for singing hymns in terms of the interval names, the closest Mesopotamian parallel to the Ugarit notation.

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No Mesopotamian theory or instruction text records durations by numeral, and the earlier readings of the numerals as…

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The Nippur music-instruction fragments show the same terms used in performance instructions for singers, so the terms…

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The Hurrian songs of Ugarit

The mystery article

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Is the Ugarit notation the same system as the Mesopotamian theory texts describe, or a local adaptation?

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Cite it

Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, & Miguel Civil (1986). Old Babylonian Musical Instructions Relating to Hymnody. https://doi.org/10.2307/1359953

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