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