Question

What are the Hurrian songs? Why are they important?

Answer 1

The Hurrian song refers to a set of fragmentary relics as well as a nearly complete example of notated music from around 1400 BCE. The almost complete song or hymn is written in cuneiform writing on clay tablets. At least one of the tablets is noted as a song, and the musical notation appears to have been written for the nine-stringed lyre.

Answer 2

The Hurrian songs are a collection of music inscribed in cuneiform on clay tablets excavated from the ancient Amorite-Canaanitecity of Ugarit, a headland in northern Syria, which date to approximately 1400 BC.
It's important because it was something that people admired back in that time. It was a written discourse on the performing arts, including music, dance, stage performances, and so on.