Hurrian songs
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The Hurrian songs are a collection of music written in cuneiform on clay tablets excavated from the ancient city of Ugarit, a headland in northern Syria, which date to approximately 1400 BCE. One of t
An entrance to the royal palace at Ugarit, where the Hurrian songs were found
Duck container Louvre AO14779
Seikilos epitaph
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The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation. Commonly dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD, th
Hurrian songs
…revolutionized the whole concept of the origin of western music." The Hurrian hymn pre-dates several other surviving early works of music (e.g., the Seikilos epitaph and the Delphic Hymns) by a millennium, and the reconstruction of the music has improved over time. The first reconstructions interpreted the musical…
Seikilos stele with poetry and musical notation
The stele along with other exhibits at the National Museum of Denmark
The inscription as it currently exists (without the original final line 'ZEI')