Today's Syrian lands, BC Around 1400 the Amorites were in the domain of domination. The ancient Ugarit city, a port city of Amoris and located in a region close to today's Lazkiye, is an area where archaeological excavations are made today.
A total of 36 cuneiform tablets were found in the excavations of the city of Ugarit in the 1950s. These tablets, known as 'Hurri Songs', were originally published by Emmanuel Laroche in 1955 and 1968. Interpretation of the writings on the tablets Made by Richard Dumbrill. Dumbrill's work can be seen in his book, The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East.
The composers of some of the music on the excavation tablets can be understood through the tablets again and their names are known today. For example, Urhiya, the composer of the provinces cataloged as h.8 and h.12 (Hurri 8, 12 etc.). Other composers whose names have been identified on the tablets are; Puhiyana, Ammiya and Tapsihuni. These are all Hurri names. But the piece called h.6 (Hurri 6) remains anonymous since the day it was discovered, because there is no information on composition on the tablet. However, the information about who scrapped h.6 on the tablet is still on the tablet. Tablet; the goddess tablets are written by the famous author of Ammurabi. Another tablet is named Ipsali as a writer.
Only one of these tablets could arrive almost daily without deterioration. On the tablet is written a Hurrian god dedicated to the goddess Nikkal whom the people of Ugarit believe. Nikkal was the 'goddess of fruit' according to the beliefs of people living in Ugarit at the time, and also the wife of the Moon God Yarikh.
If the tablet is a special thing; the oldest music of the known history, the notation and the whole. Also on the tablets written on the Hurrian chant which is cataloged as h.6; It also includes instructions on how to play with the words of the hymn to the goddess Nikkal and the 9-string 'sammum' (which is thought to be the harp or lyre today). Some of the other tablets also have information on how to tuning the sammum-named musical instrument, which is also mentioned on some of the tablets.
On the following video you can listen to the oldest melody of known history, animated by Michael Levy, the artist of the Hurrian divinity dedicated to Goddess Nikkal;