2nd millennium BC in music

3rd millennium BC in music - 2nd millennium BC in music - 1st millennium BC in music

Events 2000 BC - Percussion instruments are added to Egyptian orchestras. 2000 BC - The trumpet is played in Denmark. 1580–1295 BC - Harps are played in Egypt. 1500 BC - Guitar, lyre, trumpet, and tambourine are used by the Hittites. 1400 BC - Hurrian songs, the oldest musical notation, is written in the ancient Amorite-Canaanite city of Ugarit.Marguerite Yon, The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006): 24. (179 pages)

See also Timeline of musical events

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