MUS-M 401 1st Edition Lecture 1 Current LectureMusic in the Ancient World How can we learn about music of the past? 4 types of evidence -Physical remains: instruments, performance venues -Visual images of musicians and instruments (iconography) -Writings about music and musicians -Music itselfThe earliest music -Bone flute (from radius of a swan) found in Germany dated ca. 36,000 B.C.Music in Mesopotamia civilizations -Sumarian bull lyre found in Royal Tombs at Ur (ca. 2500 B.C.E.)Mesopotamian written records -terms for instruments, techniques, genres -Enheduanna- first composer that we know of- (fl. Ca. 2300 B.C.E.) -Diatonic scalesBabylonian notation -Clay tablet from Ugarit, ca. 1400-1250 B.C.E.Music in Ancient Greece -women played as much as men The lyre -curved and very thin -was used for religious rites, symposiums -Education-Aulos, lyre, delys, aulete -Physical remains