3rd millennium BC in music
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Events
- {{circa}} 3000 BC - The invention of the castanets in Early Dynastic Egypt.{{Cite web |title=The Music of Antiquity |url=https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/the-music-of-antiquity |access-date=2024-10-07 |website=CNRS News |language=en}}
- {{circa}} 2800 BC - The invention of the clapper, a basic form of percussion instrument, in Early Dynastic Egypt.{{Cite book |last=Sachs |first=Curt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W615TIDz97UC |title=The History of Musical Instruments |date=2012-09-19 |publisher=Courier Corporation |isbn=978-0-486-17151-7 |language=en}}
- {{circa}} 2800 BC - The invention of the harp and the lyre in Mesopotamia.{{Cite web |title=3100-1000 BCE |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191735363.timeline.0001 |access-date=2024-10-07 |website=Oxford Reference |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780191735363.timeline.0001|doi-broken-date=2024-11-03 }}{{Citation |title=lyre |encyclopedia=World Encyclopedia |date=2004 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199546091.001.0001/acref-9780199546091-e-7001 |access-date=2024-10-07 |publisher=Philip's |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199546091.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-19-954609-1|url-access=subscription }}
- {{circa}} 2550–2450 BC - The invention of the Bull Headed Lyre of Ur, string instrument used in Mesopotamia.
- {{circa}} 2550-2450 BC - The invention of the Lyres of Ur, a stringed musical instrument from the Early Dynastic III Period of Mesopotamia.{{cite book |author=Michael Chanan |title=Musica Practica: The Social Practice of Western Music from Gregorian Chant to Postmodernism |publisher=Verso |year=1994 |isbn=978-1-85984-005-4 |page=170}}
- {{circa}} 2500 BC - Around ninety royal servants—including soldiers, grooms, and female musicians—were buried alive in the tomb of a royal couple in Ur.{{Citation |last=Darvill |first=Timothy |title=Ur, Iraq |date=2009-01-01 |work=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001/acref-9780199534043-e-4440 |access-date=2024-10-07 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-19-953404-3|url-access=subscription }}
- {{circa}} 2500 BC - The invention of thin lyres in northern Syria.{{Cite web |title=An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Music |url=https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/music.htm |website=Tour Egypt}}
- {{circa}} 2500 BC - The invention of thick lyres in Uruk and Susa.
- {{circa}} 2686-2181 BC - The invention of the Sistrum, a musical instrument of the percussion family.{{Cite web |date=2023-12-08 |title=Sistrum: The Sacred Shaker in Ancient Egyptian Rituals - Golden Musical Instruments |url=https://goldenscissors.info/sistrum-the-sacred-shaker-in-ancient-egyptian-rituals/#:~:text=The%20use%20of%20sistrum%20in,music,%20dance,%20and%20fertility. |access-date=2024-10-07 |language=en-US}}
- {{circa}} 2600 BC - The creation of Standard of Ur which includes soundbox of a musical instrument{{Cite web |date=2015-10-29 |title=British Museum - The Standard of Ur |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/t/the_standard_of_ur.aspx |access-date=2024-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151029083431/https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/t/the_standard_of_ur.aspx |archive-date=2015-10-29 }}{{Cite web |date=2020-02-02 |title=Music on Earth |url=https://brianjump.net/2020/02/01/music-on-earth/ |access-date=2024-10-07 |website=Chasing the Chords |language=en}}
- {{circa}} 2300 BC - The earliest known composer is born, Enheduanna, priestess of the moon god Nanna (Sīn).
- {{circa}} 2200 BC - A song was composed during the Old Kingdom of Egypt and subsequently buried in a tomb.