Ugaritic tablet refers to 1400 BC. e. and is engaged in the words of its renowned musicologist Richard Crocker, "the oldest of the known world music sheet."
Crocker colleague Robert Brown made ​​model lire on ancient designs, and in 1974, Kilmer, Crocker and Brown publicly performed piece of music recorded on the Ugaritic plate.Two years later, they recorded this song on the record called "Sounds of Silence", to which was annexed a booklet detailing this discovery. Hymn of Ugarit, on the conclusion of scientists, was recorded on a modern seminotnoy diatonic scale ("do, re, mi ..."); furthermore, it was not just the melody of individual sounds and melodic harmony. Before this took Kilmer, it was believed that the ancient music was devoid of harmony - even in times of ancient Greece.
This is the first recorded music! N.e.My 1400 to hear it!