Sold Date: February 17, 2020
Start Date: February 7, 2020
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Up for bidding is:
 "Sounds from Silence, recent discoveries in near eastern music"
vinyl lp 1976 Bit Enki records - BTNK 101 boxed with original booklet. box in Excellent condition, complete with booklet. 

SIDE. A
Demonstration of Old Babylonian Tuning Procedure for a Lyre ca.1800B.C. (lecture). Side. B
A Hurrian Cult Song from Ancient Ugarit ca. 1400 B.C

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This album comes with one vinyl and a 23 page booklet. It is printed out of Berkeley. The sections are as follows: "History of the Research", "The Theory Texts", "The Song Text", "Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East", "Modern Replicas of Ancient Lyres", "Selected Bibliography".

It contains a plethora of information...e.g. opening paragraph:-

"During the last sixteen years documents have come to light that have provided us with the most specific information yet available about the music of the ancient Near East. These documents include information on the structure of the scale and the tuning system as far back as 1800 B.C., and also an actual song dating from around 1400 B.C. Both the tuning documents and the song predate comparable documents by at least a thousand years, thus pushing back the limit of our specific knowledge of music from a little over 2000 years ago to a little over 3000 years ago.

The documents are ancient clay tablets inscribed in antiquity with cuneiform writing..."