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New Developments in the Social History of Music and Musicians in Ancient IRAQ, SYRIA, and Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Sam Mirelman
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The ancient cultures of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey are distinguished by the existence of extensive documentation in cuneiform script, amongst which are texts concerning music and musicians. Along with a common script, a common corpus of terms (with local variants) for instruments, musicians, theory, and performance, were transmitted in various languages and dialects in the third and second millennia BCE. Apart from later sources from ancient Greece, only ancient Egypt can compare in terms of the extent of textual information in the region. In contrast, the musical cultures of ancient Iran are known mostly through iconography and remains of musical instruments (Lawergren 2009). The same is true for Israel/Palestine, where the sources are essentially material, apart from the Old Testament and a handful of other texts (Braun 2002).

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 41 , 2009 , pp. 12 - 22
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Copyright © 2009 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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