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Encyclopedias of music

Ancient texts
Nabnitu ("Creation") - "a compendium of the Old Babylonian period (c1800 bce)", general encyclopedia Nātyaśāstra Grove: 2nd or 3rd century ce, "first important non-Western treatise"
 * Book XXXII - fragmentary collection of cuneiform musical texts, including lists of tunings, instruments and instrument parts, most of which remain unidentified. Names nine strings of an instrument and its intervals. Book XXXII includes Sumerian terms that were used in musical contexts as early as the 24th century bce, suggesting that Book XXXII may have been merely a continuation of an earlier, lost text. Nabnitu "continued to be copied through the neo-Babylonian period (c300 bce)".

Greeks

Romans