2nd millennium BC in music

Events

c. 2000 BC - Percussion instruments are added to Egyptian orchestras.^[1]
c. 2000 BC - The trumpet is played in Denmark.^[2]
c. 1580–1295 BC - Harps are played in Egypt.^[3]
c. 1500 BC - Guitar, lyre, trumpet, and tambourine are used by the Hittites.^[4]
c. 1400 BC - Hurrian songs, the oldest musical notation, is written in the ancient Amorite-Canaanite city of Ugarit.^[5]^[6]^[7]

^ "Music & Singing in Egypt". Sis.gov.eg. May 19, 2016. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
^ Museum, United States National (1891). Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 ... U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
^ "Harp". MetMuseum.org. The Met Fifth Avenue. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
^ Wright, John W.; et al. (2004). The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge. New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 0-312-31367-5.
^ Duchesne-Guillemin, Marcelle (1980). "Sur la Restitution de la Musique Hourrite". Revue de Musicologie (in French). 66 (1): 10. doi:10.2307/928544. JSTOR 928544.
^ Marguerite Yon, The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006): 24. ISBN 978-1575060293 (179 pages)
^ Dumbrill, Richard J. (2005). The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East (2. ed., rev. and corr. with additional notes and appendices ed.). Victoria, BC: Trafford Publ. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-4120-5538-3.