800 -600 BCE Spain – Possible chieronomic system used in ancient Gades and Tartessos due to Phoenician (Tyre) influence. 1200 – 1000 BCE India – Samaveda, Vedic Numeric Hand Notation 1400 BCE Syria – the Hurrian Hymns are a collection of music inscribed in cuneiform on clay tablets excavated from the ancient Amorite-Canaanite city of Ugarit ( Ras Shamrah in northern Syria) 1900 – 1600 BCE Iraq – Music notation on cuneiform tablet fragment set created at Nippur, in Sumer (Iraq) 2000 – 1700 BCE Iraq (Babylonia, Larsa) – Old Babylonian notation. ![]() 2600 – 1900 BCE Pakistan/Afghanistan/India (Indus Valley) – Possible transmission of Harappan/Indus Valley musical terms, notation, and instruments to or from ancient Sumer via trade circuits. Chromatic Solfége Hand Symbols A s c e n d i n g D e s c e n d i n g ND Music Edition Created Date: 6:26:37 PM. ![]() Here are some previews: All the images have a transparent background so you can use them in multiple ways: In worksheets. 2600 BCE Iraq (Sumer) – A String Naming System is recorded as early as the Early Dynastic (ED) period III (2600-2334 BCE). That’s a total of 70 images Free Clipart - Kodaly Curwen Solfa Hand Signs Click To Tweet. Mid 3rd Millennium BCE Israel – A form of cheironomy is said to be continuously documented in ancient Israel from at least the middle of the 3rd millennium BCE onwards. ca. 2613 to 2494 BCE Egypt – Cheironomy is thought to date back to the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt ca. 2613 to 2494 BCE.One thing to keep in mind with music notation is Sandeep Bhagwati’s (2013a and 2013b) idea of Notational Perspective: the idea that all notations have a context-independent AND contingent features which shapes what’s stable over time and what is malleable.įeatured Image: Various music notations from all over the world dating from the Score for the Hurrian Hymn to Nykkal discovered in Ugarit (Syria 1400 BCE) to a modern notation for visually impaired or blind readers. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of examples from the 20th century to today, that may very well be divided into a separate project especially as a number of new notations are being developed directly as notation programs and software (see the Non-CWN Music Notation Software list for many examples). The timeline will eventually be incorporated into a Global Music Theory resource which will include other projects like the Arabic Music Theory Bibliography (650-1650) Project, the Early Black Musicians, Composers, and Music Scholars (505-1505 CE), and the Bibliography of Slave Orchestras and Ensembles. I’ll only be updating this intermittently while I focus on several other annotated text documents of the timeline (separated primarily by region) and populating the database with examples. This means that this Music Notation Timeline page gets updated far less frequently. ![]() I regularly come across a couple dozen or so music notation systems a month now, often quite by accident while doing research in other areas, and as many of those intentional searches fall into regional clusters it made more sense to start documenting them as such. This timeline of music notation is by no means complete and should be treated as a work in progress.
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