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