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THE MUSIC IN THE
ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Daniel Sánchez Muñoz
UIMP English Linguistic Inmersion Course
Granada, 21 August 2015
INDEX OF CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Musical Instruments
• Music in the life
• Aesthetics and Theory
• Conclusions
INTRODUCTION
OBJECTIVES
• Summarize the ANE music (3000 – 323 B. C.)
DIFFICULTIES
• Very unknown
cultures
• Big temporal and
geographical space
• Sources: NO
organized
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
STRINGED INSTRUMENTS
Lyres:
A Bull-lyre from Royal
Cemetery of Ur
Lutes:
Overall Old Babylonian
Period (2004-1595 B. C.)
Harps:
An example from
Neo-Assyrian Period
(911-612 B. C.)
WIND INSTRUMENTS
• Definition of their nature very complicated
PERCUSSIONS
Cymbals
Female cymbalist
from Ugarit (Ras el-
Šamra, Syria)
Many kinds of
drums (vertical,
frame drum, etc.)
VOICE AND SINGERS
• The most important musical instrument
Have we changed actually in many years??
MUSIC IN SOCIAL LIFE
RELIGIOUS WORSHIPS
• Comunicating with great musicians… the gods!!
Musicians of arched harp balaĝ
THE POLITIC MATTERS
The Neo-Assyrian King
AssurbanipalA vertical harp musician
• The exaltation of political authorities
BANQUETS AND ANOTHER
• The rest of Ancient Near Eastern people’s life
AESTHETICS AND THEORY
THE IDEA OF MUSIC
• Nam.nar/ Narûtu =
“The Art of Singing”
• Mumûn / Hubûru =
“Sound” = Music +
Noise
• The particular
musical sounds
Animals as musicians
MUSICAL THEORY
• Clay tablets with musical theory
UET VII 74YBC (Yale Babylonian
Collection) 11381
MUSICAL SCORES
• A unique score… but all the poetry was music
Hymn with musical notation to Goddess Nikkal
from Ugarit (Ras el-Šamra, Syria), 1400 B.C.
CONCLUSIONS
TO SUM UP AND THINK
• Music in mostancient civilisedcultures
– Very complex
– Very important
• Music in ANE = base of future
THANKS