Ancient Music

NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN ARCHAEOMUSICOLOGY

The website of ICONEA (International Conference of Near Easten Archaeomusicology) includes information on conferences as well as the following two open access publications:

ICONEA 2008: Proceedings of the International Conference of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology Held at the British Museum December 4, 5 and 6, 2008
Edited by RICHARD DUMBRILL & IRVING FINKEL
© Copyright 2010 Richard Dumbrill and Irving Finkel

Table of Contents

• POSSESSED BY THE GREAT MOTHER: MUSIC AND TRANCE IN ANCIENT POMPEII AND IN THE POPULAR TRADITION OF SOUTHERN ITALY, Roberto Melini page 1
• NEW LIGHT ON THE BABYLONIAN TONAL SYSTEM, Leon Crickmore page 11
• THE ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIAN SISTRUM AND ITS REFERENCES IN CUNEIFORM
• LITERATURE: THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE ŠEM AND MEZE, Uri Gabbay page 23
• MUSICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE HURRIAN MATERIAL BY STATISTICAL
• ANALYSIS, David Halperin page 29
• ANOTHER LOOK AT ALLEGED ANCIENT BAGPIPES, Terence Mitchell page 33
• PLAYING IN CONCERT IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, Dominique Collon page 47
• A QUEENS’S ORCHESTRA AT THE COURT OF MARI: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE ARCHAIC INSTRUMENTARIUM IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM BC, Myriam Marcetteau page 67
• ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN AND EARLY JEWISH LYRE TRADITIONS, Siam Bhayro page 77
• BULL LYRES, SILVER LYRES, SILVER PIPES AND ANIMALS IN SUMER, Bo Lawergren page 83
• A SUMERIAN TEXT IN QUANTIFIED ARCHAEOMUSICOLOGY, Ernest McClain page 89
• EVIDENCE AND INFERENCE IN TEXTS OF THEORY IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, Richard Dumbrill page105
• A TRAVELER’S TALES: OBSERVATIONS ON MUSICAL MOBILITY IN MESOPOTAMIA
• AND BEYOND, Piotr Michalowski page 117
• MUSICAL ENSEMBLES IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA, Theo Krispijn page 125
• A NEW HYPOTHESIS FOR THE ELABORATION OF HEPTATONIC
• SCALES AND CONSEQUENCES IN UNDERSTANDING THEIR ORIGINS, Amine Beyhom page 151

ARANE: Archaeomusicological Review of the Ancient Near East
A publication of ICONEA, The International conference
of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology
Volume I - 2009

Table of Contents

• THE TONAL SYSTEMS OF MESOPOTAMIA AND ANCIENT GREECE : SOME SIMILARITIES
• AND DIFFERENCES, Leon Crickmore page 1
• ANCIENT ISRAEL/PALESTINE AND THE NEW HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MUSIC: SOME UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, Joachim Braun page 17
• FOUR TABLES FROM THE TEMPLE LIBRARY OF NIPPUR: A SOURCE FOR PLATO’S
• NUMBER IN RELATION TO THE QUANTIFICATION OF BABYLONIAN TONE NUMBERS, Richard J Dumbrill, page 27
• EMBODYING MUSICAL PERFORMANCES IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN, Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Mireia López-Bertran page 39
• IS THE HEPTAGRAM IN CBS1766 A DIAL?, Richard J Dumbrill page 47
• HARMONIC MYTHOLOGY Nine interdisciplinary research notes Leon Crickmore page 51
• THE HORN QUARTET: A STUDY OF BULL, COW, CALF AND STAG FIGURES ON SUMERIAN LYRES, Myriam Marcetteau page 67

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