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Assyriology. Peer-reviewed short publications by Daniel Sánchez Muñoz

Sánchez Muñoz, D. (in press), “Encore des percussions! Observations sur /tigi/ et /adab/”, Pallas 114, xx(x)-xx(x), 2021

Du fait des difficultés à combiner les sources iconographiques et textuelles, l’étude des percuss... more Du fait des difficultés à combiner les sources iconographiques et textuelles, l’étude des percussions dans la Mésopotamie ancienne via la terminologie suméro-akkadienne est encore difficile. C’est notamment le cas des termes sumériens /tigi/ et /adab/ dont l’identification comme instruments à percussion a été récemment écartée. Cette étude montrera, toutefois, qu’il subsiste encore des textes où cette identification demeure possible.

Due to the difficulties for matching iconographic and textual evidence, study of percussion instruments in ancient Mesopotamia according to the Sumero-Akkadian terminology is still a controversial matter. That is the case of the Sumerian words /tigi/ and /adab/, whose identification as percussion instruments has been recently dismissed. That they still do refer to percussion instruments in some excerpts, however, will be proved in this paper.

Sánchez Muñoz, D. (2020), E2 nam-nar-ra: A Musical Royal Space in Ancient Mesopotamia, in: Bellia, A. (ed.), Musical and Choral Performance Spaces in the Ancient World, Pisa-Roma, Fabrizio Serra, Telestes 5, 31-41, 2020

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Sánchez Muñoz, D. (2016; appeared in 2018), “Una reflexión sobre el Origen de la Importancia de la Música en la Antigua Mesopotamia a partir de los Cilindros de Gudea A y B”, ARYS 14, 179-205, 2016

Diversos textos nos muestran a la Música como una realidad especialmente considerada en Mesopotam... more Diversos textos nos muestran a la Música como una realidad especialmente considerada en Mesopotamia, aunque ninguno de esos textos nos dice por qué tenía esa importancia. No obstante, un análisis del relato sobre la construcción del Templo de Ninĝirsu, contenido en los Cilindros de Gudea, podría indicarnos que la importancia de la Música residiría en definir a las divinidades como gobernantes sabios y prudentes del Universo, importante conducta a la hora de mantener la tan ansiada estabilidad del Universo en Mesopotamia.

Several texts show the Music as a specially considered reality in Mesopotamia, but none of those texts say why the Music had this importance. However, an analysis of the tale about the building of Ninĝirsu’s Temple, contained in the Cylinders of Gudea, could indicate us that the Music was important because it defined to the deities as wise and prudent governors of the Universe, an important conduct in order to maintain the so eagered Universal stability in Mesopotamia.

Assyriology. Monographs by Daniel Sánchez Muñoz

Sánchez Muñoz, D. (2019; appeared in 2020), Analysis of two terms related to music in Ancient Mesopotamia: nam-nar and nārūtu(m), PhD Dissertation, Universidad de Granada. Available on http://hdl.handle.net/10481/58701, 2019

We know many terms in the Sumerian and Akkadian sources for designating the musical instruments, ... more We know many terms in the Sumerian and Akkadian sources for designating the musical instruments, musicians, compositions and some aspects of the musical “performance” in ancient Mesopotamia. However, there was ever a term for designating all these aspects together? There was a term for "music" in ancient Mesopotamia like in our western culture? According to the main current researchers in Mesopotamian music, there is no term in Sumerian nor Akkadian for “music”. There would be specially no term for "Music" as a sound combination as we could understand nowadays in the western culture. The closest terms to that word "music" would be nam-nar (Sumerian) and nārūtu(m) (Akkadian). However, they designated only some musical aspects, like the office of a musician or the ability for making music. In any sense, only few texts containing nam-nar and nārūtu(m) have been analysed for these researchers in order to make those statements. In consequence, the objective of this study is to analyse all the extant current mentions to nam-nar and nārūtu(m) in order to prove the consistence of that scientific agreement. The hypothesis of this study is that nam-nar and nārūtu(m) actually meant “music” in most occasions and, therefore, it existed actually a word for "music" in Mesopotamia. In order to prove the hypothesis of this study, we analyse 70 texts containing nam-nar or nārūtu(m) from the Old Akkadian Period until the Late Seleucid Period. They are presented in our study with a transliteration, translation and philological notes, and they are analysed with a commentary. In this sense, three disciplines are combined in our study: Assyriology (for the cultural-historical framework and the philological methodology), Musicology (for the topic and some comments) and the History, since all the textual excerpts are presented here according to their chronological and geographical provenance.

Organisation scientifique by Daniel Sánchez Muñoz

Call for Papers by Daniel Sánchez Muñoz

While surviving texts reveal much information about technology and production in the ancient Near... more While surviving texts reveal much information about technology and production in the ancient Near East, the ideological expression within any text inherently skews interpretation of lived experience towards "the official line." Material sources (namely archaeological and visual) and Ethnography help to corroborate what texts say and are usually employed by researchers, but a further way of exploration remains untouched: experimentation.

CfP ASOR 2022. Virtual Session "Experimental Approaches to the Ancient Near Eastern Record", 2022

Call for Papers for this Virtual Session in ASOR 2022 about the role of experimentation in order ... more Call for Papers for this Virtual Session in ASOR 2022 about the role of experimentation in order to elucidate the content of Ancient Near Eastern Texts

The importance of the musical traditions of Ancient Egypt (including here Kush/Meroë and Libyan a... more The importance of the musical traditions of Ancient Egypt (including here Kush/Meroë and Libyan areas) and West Asia (including Assyria and Babylonia, Anatolia, Iran, the Levant, Arabian Peninsula and southern Caucasus) go far beyond the ‘magnificence’ of their extant instruments (e.g. the Mesopotamian bull-lyres or Tutankhamun’s trumpets). Research demonstrates the importance of these traditions as particularly relevant for understanding cross-cultural influences in the musical traditions of surrounding regions (Franklin 2015; Sánchez Muñoz 2017).
Paradoxically, despite their geographical proximity, this previous research has only begun to explore the possible musical interactions between both areas. Moreover, the few works on the topic (Duchesne-Guillemin 1981; von Lieven 2008) still leave many questions unanswered, such as the influences of cross-cultural contact on musical aspects beyond the instruments themselves (e.g. musicians, repertoires, etc.).
This archaeomusicological session consequently emerges with the purpose of solving this situation by welcoming papers from (Ethno-)Archaeology and Material Culture Studies (besides Egyptian & Ancient West Asian Philologies or (Ethno)musicology) about any aspect of musical interactions between Egypt and West Asia during Antiquity (late-4th mill. BCE until the change of era). Emphasising multi-disciplinary approaches and methodologies, the session will develop cross-cultural archaeo-musicological study as a specific contribution to wider narratives of understanding relations between both regions. These lines may guide the direction of proposed papers:
• West Asian influences on Ancient Egyptian music and vice versa.
• The role of regions connecting both continents (e.g. the East Mediterranean) in those contacts.
• Ancient West Asian and Egyptian contexts as common receptors of other Eastern and Western ancient musical traditions.
Studies regarding other Asiatic and African cultures are also welcome if pertaining to the musical interactions of both continents in Antiquity. The organisers are open to discuss such matters in advance and intend to publish the results of this session.

Call for Papers for this session within next EAA 2021 (Kiel & Online, September 8-11, 2021) about... more Call for Papers for this session within next EAA 2021 (Kiel & Online, September 8-11, 2021) about interactions between Egyptian and West Asian musical and sound worlds. Authors intend to publish the results.

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Assyriology. Non peer-reviewed short publications by Daniel Sánchez Muñoz

Analysis of two terms related to music in Ancient Mesopotamia: nam-nar and nārūtu(m), 2020

The complete version may be accessed on JSTOR. If you want a copy, but you cannot proceed in that... more The complete version may be accessed on JSTOR. If you want a copy, but you cannot proceed in that way, please contact me to danielsanmu@ugr.es

Sánchez Muñoz, D. (2017), “El concepto de la música en las cartas y cartas-oración mesopotámicas”, in: Gallego Cuiñas, A., López, A., Pociña Pérez, A., (eds), LA CARTA. Reflexiones interdisciplinares sobre la epistolografía, UGR Press, 141-155

This paper gives an overview of the ideas about what was the music for the Mesopotamian people ac... more This paper gives an overview of the ideas about what was the music for the Mesopotamian people according to a group of Akkadian letters

Sánchez Muñoz, D. (2016), “Una interpretación musical del mito del descenso de Inanna al Inframundo”, in: Cádiz, M. L.; Colás, I.; Bergillos, R.; Chovancova, L.; Haro, M. del Mar; Romero, J. L.; Burgos, A., (eds), Actas de las I JIFFI, Gobel, 360

Sánchez Muñoz, D. (2018; published in 2020), “Análisis del término musical nam-nar en el mito Enki y Ninmaḫ”, in: Pérez Colodrero, C. I. and Tormo Valpuesta, C. (eds), Afinando ideas: aportaciones multidisciplinares de la Joven Musicología Española, UGR Press, Colección Patrimonio Musical 11, 17-40, 2018

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Sánchez Muñoz, D. (2016a), “Instrumentos de Doble Lengüeta en la Antigua Mesopotamia”, Revista de AFOES 5, 38-42, 2016

El propósito de este trabajo es presentar las principales características organológicas y musical... more El propósito de este trabajo es presentar las principales características organológicas y musicales de los instrumentos de doble lengüeta en la Antigua Mesopotamia, así como su proyección social. Para ello, nos apoyamos en fuentes escritas y arqueológicas propias de esta cultura.

The aim of this work is to present the main organological and musical features of double-reed instruments in Ancient Mesopotamia, in addition of its social proyection. In order to do that, we support ourselves on written and archaeological sources of this culture.

Ancient World. Peer-reviewed short publications by Daniel Sánchez Muñoz

Sánchez Muñoz, D. (2017), “The south face of the Helicon: Ancient Egyptian musical elements in ancient Greek music”, in: Rosińska-Balik, K., Dębowska-Ludwin, J. and Chyla, J. M. (eds), CRE 2016 Proceedings, Oxbow, 173-185

The south face of the Helicon: Ancient Egyptian musical elements in ancient Greek music, 2017

Sánchez Muñoz, D. (2017): "The south face of the Helicon: Ancient Egyptian musical elements in an... more Sánchez Muñoz, D. (2017): "The south face of the Helicon: Ancient Egyptian musical elements in ancient Greek music", Current Research in Egyptology 2016. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annyal Symposium, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland 4-7 May 2016 (Chyla, J. M.; Dębowska-Ludwin, J.; Rosińska-Balik, K. and Walsh, Carl, eds.), Oxbow, Oxford & Philadelphia, pp. 173-185

The work offers a preliminary study about Egyptian influence on Greek music from the Archaic and Classical Periods to encourage future work in this field among researchers. We will focus our attention in the aesthetic and intellectual aspects of these musical traditions. In this way, we will talk about Egyptian and Greek concepts of music, the character of their musical traditions through a textual and iconographic analysis, and the question of Egypt as a musical reference for ancient Greece. We demonstrate with our study how the Egyptian influence on Greek music was very profound before the Ptolemaic Period.

Ancient World. Non peer-reviewed short works by Daniel Sánchez Muñoz

Sánchez Muñoz, D. (2015), Reseña sobre: Mª T. SCHETTINO; Sylvie PITTIA (dirs.), Les sons du pouvoir dans les mondes anciens actes du colloque international de l’Université de La Rochelle: 25–27 novembre 2010, Besançon, 2012, Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, Florentia Iliberritana 26, 260-262, 2015

Reseña de este libro para el número 26 (año 2015) de la revista Florentia Iliberritana, de la Uni... more Reseña de este libro para el número 26 (año 2015) de la revista Florentia Iliberritana, de la Universidad de Granada

Sánchez Muñoz, D. (2014), “La doble lengüeta en los espectáculos gladiatorios”, Revista de AFOES 3, 6-10, 2014

Ritorno alle Pratiche Musicale dell'Antichità nel XXI Secolo: A propósito de "Euterpe 2018, 2019

Se realiza aquí una descripción del seminario Euterpe 2018 dedicado a la práctica musical del aul... more Se realiza aquí una descripción del seminario Euterpe 2018 dedicado a la práctica musical del aulós en el s. XXI, así como se dan algunos consejos para iniciarse en este apasionante instrumento, especialmente siendo oboísta o fagotista.