User:TwilligToves/Encyclopedias of music
Encyclopedias of music
History
[edit]Ancient texts
[edit]Nabnitu ("Creation") - "a compendium of the Old Babylonian period (c1800 bce)", general encyclopedia
- Book XXXII - fragmentary collection of cuneiform musical texts, including lists of tunings, instruments and instrument parts, most of which remain unidentified. Names nine strings of an instrument and its intervals. Book XXXII includes Sumerian terms that were used in musical contexts as early as the 24th century bce, suggesting that Book XXXII may have been merely a continuation of an earlier, lost text. Nabnitu "continued to be copied through the neo-Babylonian period (c300 bce)".
Nātyaśāstra Grove: 2nd or 3rd century ce, "first important non-Western treatise"
Greeks
Romans
Middle Ages
[edit]References
[edit]- Coover, James B. and Franklin, John C. "Dictionaries & encyclopedias of music". Grove Music Online (subscription required). ed. L. Macy. Retrieved on March 5 2007.
- Kilmer, Anne Draffkorn (April 22, 1971). "The Discovery of an Ancient Mesopotamian Theory of Music". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 115, No. 2. pp. 131-149.
- Wulstan, David (October 1971). "The Earliest Musical Notation". Music & Letters, Vol. 52, No. 4. pp. 365-382.