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Early Sumerian and Mesopotamian Music

Early Sumerian and Mesopotamian Music. 5000 BCE. Instruments found buried with kings: Fragments of bone wind instruments. 4000 BCE. Carved images of musicians and instruments Asymmetrical harp. 3200 BCE . Carved image of feast scene

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Early Sumerian and Mesopotamian Music

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  1. Early Sumerian and Mesopotamian Music

  2. 5000 BCE • Instruments found buried with kings: • Fragments of bone wind instruments

  3. 4000 BCE • Carved images of musicians and instruments • Asymmetrical harp

  4. 3200 BCE • Carved image of feast scene • Musicians and instruments: harper, vocalist, drummer, indicating secular uses • Pictographic writing includes round lyre as a symbol or pictorgram

  5. 2000 BCE • Secular music: • epic stories and poetry put to music • Still transmitted orally, through palace musicians • Sacred music: • laments, prayers, songs of praise • Still transmitted orally, as part of priestly secrets

  6. 1900 BCE until AD • Harp tuning chart is discovered, is key to understanding all music • All music based on stringed instruments, tuned to different keys for different types of songs • Notations discovered; no notation for rhythm

  7. Other instruments Kithra sistrum

  8. Works cited Stauder, Wilhelm. “Mesopotamia.” The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 12. London: MacMillian Publishers, Ltd. 1991. Sumerian Harp. Free Iraq. 7 Feb. 2007. <www.freeiraq.gq.nu/images/harp.jpg> Sistrum. Buikdans Orientaalse Dans. 7 Feb. 2007. <www.buikdans.be/shop/instruments/sistrum.jpg>. Kithara. Orkiestra Antyczna OPT Gardzienice.7 Feb. 2007 <www.mnp.art.pl/2004/Kithara/kithara.JPG>.

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