The Music Of The Sumerians
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Author | : Francis W. Galpin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2011-02-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0521180635 |
A thorough and carefully researched 1937 account of the music of the Sumerians and their immediate predecessors, the Babylonians and Assyrians. On its publication, this book was one of the few studies to concentrate on the music of the ancient civilisations of modern-day Iraq, and is still valued today.
Author | : Samuel Noah Kramer |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2010-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226452328 |
The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. "There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."—American Journal of Archaeology "An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."—Library Journal
Author | : Hourly History |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781720228035 |
The Sumerians The Sumerians settled in the area known as Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, around five thousand years ago. They produced many fundamental changes to the way in which human societies developed
Author | : Leonard Woolley |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393002928 |
Describes the civilization of the Sumerians, who inhabited the land which today is Iraq, in the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C.
Author | : Jeremy A. Black |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780199296330 |
Sumerian is the oldest written language of ancient Iraq, first written down some 5,000 years ago. Its literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, proverbs and love poetry, provides a stimulating insight into the world's first urban civilization. This is a comprehensive collection.
Author | : Jane Shuter |
Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781432913311 |
What is a ziggurat? How were the Sumerians riled? Why did the Sumerian civilization disappear? This book answers these questions and more. Learn what Sumerians wore, what they ate, how they traveled from place to place, and find out how we know about them today.
Author | : Joshua Bowen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Sumerian language |
ISBN | : 9781734358605 |
Author | : Richard Dumbrill |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0244754764 |
This volume analyses eight cuneiform texts of Ancient Near-Eastern Music theory, essential to the understanding of Ancient Semitic Music, to a level never achieved before. The author explains why previous interpretations had been misapprehended because they were analysed with Western musicological methods, and addresses these problems.
Author | : Henry Freeman |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2016-07-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1534611347 |
A legendary civilization vanished under the Fertile Crescent and escaped a fate worse than death until Sumerologists questioned widely accepted truths. The Sumerians reemerged onto the extraordinary timeline of human history. Their tales of kings and gods, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, and their fearless trade in distant lands, during the remarkable Bronze Age, centered in the world’s first city-states that chronicled ancient rivalries and their enduring impact. Inside you will read about... ✓ How We Know What We Know About Sumerians ✓ The Bronze Age – Sumer And Its Contemporaries ✓ How Did The Sumerians Become Civilized? ✓ How Long Were They Around ✓ Primer Of Impact Of Sumerian Ancient Civilization On Our World ✓ What Did They Look Like? ✓ What Shaped Their Worldview? And much more! Our journey relies on excavated and historical evidence to explore their productive fascinations with order and man’s place in the universe. Their application of impressive knowledge helps us unfold their mysterious civilization.
Author | : Paul Collins |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2021-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178914423X |
The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world’s earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is this picture correct? Paul Collins reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from the archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over the last one hundred fifty years. Reconstructed through the biases of those who unearthed them, the Sumerians were never simply lost and found, but reinvented a number of times, both in antiquity and in the more recent past.