User:Archaeomusicology

ICONEA (International Conference of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology) was founded in 2007 by Archaeomusicologist Richard Dumbrill and Assyriologist Irving Finkel to foster research into Near and Middle Eastern Archaeomusicology. A research group of the Institue of Musical Research of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London, since 2010, ICONEA is also associated with NEMO-Online and with PLM (Patrimoines et Langages Musicaux of the University of Paris-Sorbonne). The deputy Director is Musicologist Bruno de Florence. The first conference was held at the British Museum on December 4, 5 and 6, 2008. The proceedings were published by ICONEA PUBLICATIONS under the title of ICONEA 2008. The volume includes contributions from:


 * Roberto Melini: Possessed by the Great Mother: Music and Trance in Ancient Pompeii and in the Popular Tradition of Southern Italy.
 * Leon Crickmore: New Light on the Babylonian Tonal System.
 * Uri Gabbay: The Ancient Mesopotamian Sistrum and its References in Cuneiform Literature: The Identification of the ŠEM and MEZE.
 * David Halperin: Musical Reconstruction of the Hurrian Material by Statistical Analysis.
 * Terence Mitchell: Another Look at Alleged Ancient Bagpipes.
 * Dominique Collon: Playing in Concert in the Ancient Near East.
 * Myriam Marcetteau: A Queen's Orchestra at the Court of Mari: A New Perspective on the Archaic Instrumentarium in the Third Millennium BC.
 * Siam Bhayro: Ancient Near Eastern and Early Jewish Lyre Traditions.
 * Bo Lawergren: Bull Lyres, Silver Lyres, Silver Pipes and Animals in Sumer.
 * Ernest McClain: A Sumerian Text in Quantified Archaeomusicology.
 * Richard Dumbrill: Evidence and Inference in Texts of Theory in the Ancient Near East.
 * Piotr Michalowski: A Traveler's Tales: Observations on Musical Mobility in Mesopotamia and Beyond.
 * Theo Krispijn: Musical Ensembles in Ancient Mesopotamia.
 * Amine Beyhom: A New Hypothesis for the Elaboration of Heptatonic scales Scales and Consequences in Understanding their Origins.