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The document summarizes the Hurrian songs, a collection of music inscribed on clay tablets excavated from Ugarit in northern Syria dating to approximately 1400 BC. The nearly complete tablet contains the Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal, making it the oldest surviving substantially complete work of notated music. The hymn provides instructions for a singer accompanied by a nine-stringed harp or lyre. Scholars have debated the meaning of the musical notation, but it appears to describe intervals on a diatonic scale. T

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