2nd millennium BC in music
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3rd millennium BC in music - 2nd millennium BC in music - 1st millennium BC in music
Events
- c. 2000 BC - Percussion instruments are added to Egyptian orchestras.[1]
- c. 2000 BC - The trumpet is played in Denmark.[2]
- c. 1580–1295 BC - Harps are played in Egypt.[3]
- c. 1500 BC - Guitar, lyre, trumpet, and tambourine are used by the Hittites.[4]
- c. 1400 BC - Hurrian songs, the oldest musical notation, is written in the ancient Amorite-Canaanite city of Ugarit.[5][6][7]
See also
- Timeline of musical events
References
- ↑ "Music & Singing in Egypt". May 19, 2016. https://www.sis.gov.eg/Story/1300/Music-%26-Singing-in-Egypt?lang=en-us.
- ↑ Museum, United States National (1891) (in en). Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 .... U.S. Government Printing Office. https://books.google.com/books?id=xtQ_AAAAYAAJ&q=2000+bc+trumpet+denmark&pg=PA663.
- ↑ "Harp". The Met Fifth Avenue. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/555866.
- ↑ Wright, John W. (2004). The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge. New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 0-312-31367-5. https://archive.org/details/newyorktimesguid00john.
- ↑ Duchesne-Guillemin, Marcelle (1980). "Sur la Restitution de la Musique Hourrite" (in fr). Revue de Musicologie 66 (1): 10. doi:10.2307/928544.
- ↑ Marguerite Yon, The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006): 24. ISBN 978-1575060293 (179 pages)
- ↑ Dumbrill, Richard J. (2005). The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East (2. ed., rev. and corr. with additional notes and appendices ed.). Victoria, BC: Trafford Publ. pp. 117. ISBN 978-1-4120-5538-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=nlm1Kbc7P5UC.
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