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Music played a central role in Mesopotamian religion and some instruments themselves were regarded as minor deities and given proper names, such as Ninigizibara. Its use in secular occasions included festivals, warfare, and funerals—among all classes of society.
The nearly half million cuneiform tablets excavated from ancient Near Eastern sites provide us with ample evidence for the uses of music in ancient Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria, and among their neighbors in Anatolia, Iran, and Syria-Palestine.
Although by no means exhaustive, these examples show how ancient Mesopotamian music constitutes an interesting chapter in the history of human conceptions of what is music and musicality, and how this art fits into the overarching culture.
This presentation features all the ancient Near East-themed tracks from my 2020 album, "Echoes of Ancient Mesopotamia & Canaan" with detailed album notes for each and every track:...
The Hurrians (“A Hurrian Cult Song…”) were a people centered around Northern Mesopotamia and western Anatolia. Their closest modern descendants are Armenians.
textualize and analyze Conner’s music in ancient Mesopotamian languages and the reconstruction and performance of Mesopo-tamian lyres. The multiple reconstructions of Eastern Mediterra-nean culture discussed here not only provide a setting to test the limits of musical reconstructions, refabrications, and reinventions
On some early Mesopotamian percussionists. This article discusses certain aspects of early Mesopotamian musical practices, focusing on a small set of native terms for instruments and performers.
