2nd millennium BC in music
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Events
- {{circa}} 2000 BC - Percussion instruments are added to Egyptian orchestras.{{Cite web |date=May 19, 2016 |title=Music & Singing in Egypt |url=https://www.sis.gov.eg/Story/1300/Music-%26-Singing-in-Egypt?lang=en-us |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=Sis.gov.eg}}
- {{circa}} 2000 BC - The trumpet is played in Denmark.{{Cite book |last=Museum |first=United States National |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xtQ_AAAAYAAJ&q=2000+bc+trumpet+denmark&pg=PA663 |title=Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 ... |date=1891 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en |via=Google Books}}
- {{circa}} 1580–1295 BC - Harps are played in Egypt.{{Cite web |title=Harp |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/555866 |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=MetMuseum.org |publisher=The Met Fifth Avenue}}
- {{circa}} 1500 BC - Guitar, lyre, trumpet, and tambourine are used by the Hittites.{{Cite book |last=Wright |first=John W. |url=https://archive.org/details/newyorktimesguid00john |title=The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge |publisher=St. Martin’s Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-312-31367-5 |location=New York |display-authors=etal |url-access=registration}}
- {{circa}} 1400 BC - Hurrian songs, the oldest musical notation, is written in the ancient Amorite-Canaanite city of Ugarit.{{Cite journal |last=Duchesne-Guillemin |first=Marcelle |year=1980 |title=Sur la Restitution de la Musique Hourrite |journal=Revue de Musicologie |language=fr |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=10 |doi=10.2307/928544 |jstor=928544}}Marguerite Yon, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2YWQZ6x56dAC The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra] (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006): 24. {{ISBN|978-1575060293}} (179 pages){{Cite book |last=Dumbrill |first=Richard J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nlm1Kbc7P5UC |title=The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East |date=2005 |publisher=Trafford Publ |isbn=978-1-4120-5538-3 |edition=2. ed., rev. and corr. with additional notes and appendices |location=Victoria, BC |pages=117}}