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The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East
'This volume is a massive leap forward over any previous synthesis of the subject and includes at the very minimum so much information that its academic and scientific value is self evident. The freshness and profundity of Dumbrill's approach to the subject exceeds anything attempted before. 'The mythology of ancient Mesopotamia proves readable as tonal allegory when its numerology is decoded as tuning theory. By the third millennium BC both pentatonic and heptatonic tunings were quantified throughout the entire 12-tone gamut. Richard Dumbrill has documented the massive empirical experience with strings and pipes that makes this early musicalization of the universe believable.' The volume co...
The Birth of Music Theory
This book is a full revision of the essential cuneiform texts of Ancient Near-Eastern Musicology. It covers a period from around 2600 to 500 BC in Sumerian, Akkadian and Hurrian languages. It is the most recent re-evaluation of these texts which are explored in a new light and replace previous obsolete analyses.
Semitic Music Theory
This volume analyses eight cuneiform texts of Ancient Near-Eastern Music theory, essential to the understanding of Ancient Semitic Music, to a level never achieved before. The author explains why previous interpretations had been misapprehended because they were analysed with Western musicological methods, and addresses these problems.
The Music of the Ancient Near East
This study provides an account of the theory, organology and philology of the music of the ancient Near East. It covers research undertaken since 1960 when cuneiform tablets containing theoretical material and music were discovered and deciphered.
A Concise Treatise on Sumerian and Babylonian Music Theory
A Concise Treatise on Sumerian and Babylonian Music Theory including the following texts: 1 - nabn
Understanding Archaeomusicology
This book covers about 5,000 years of Near and Middle-Eastern Archaeomusicology. The primary sources come from authentic autographic clay tablets mostly written at the time of their inception, in the Sumerian, Akkadian and Hurrian languages, unlike Ancient Greek musicology, for instance, which only relies on much later copies and translations of elusive originals. It could even be said that these original texts offer more accurate details on the nature of musicology 4,000 years ago than Western musicology can offer about music of the first centuries of the Common Era. There is evidence that the Gregorian modes came from Babylon 4,000 years ago. The corpus of Mesopotamian musicology includes the oldest ever written song about 3,400 years ago in modern Northwest Syria and also gives the name of the scribe, the name of the god to whom the song was dedicated, and most importantly the name of the composer.
Idiophones of the Ancient Near East in the Collections of the British Museum
This book is a catalogue of the idiophones acquired by the Department of the Near East of the British Museum since the mid-nineteenth century. It includes clay rattles principally from Ur, dating from the third millennium BC; shell clappers; copper and bronze clappers and cymbals from Nimrud and from other prestigious locations and a remarkable collection of bronze bells mainly from Nimrud, unearthed by Layard around 1850. The book gives an accurate description of the objects along with former references and a comprehensive bibliography.
