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Academic Papers on the Mesopotamian Tonal System

Published 1968: Old Babylonian Treatise on the Tuning of the Harp, GURNEY

Published 1994: Babylonian Music Again, GURNEY

Published 1994: The Babylonian Musical Notation and the Hurrian Melodic Texts, WEST

Published 2007:  An Alternative Interpretation of the Seven-Pointed Star on CBS 1766, WAERZEGGERS and SIEBES

Published 2007: Oxford Music Online: Mesopotamia, KILMER and MIRELMAN

Published 2008: New Light on the Babylonian Tonal System, CRICKMORE

Published 2011: Seven-Sided Star Figures and Tunung Algorithms in Mesopotamian, Greek and Islamic Texts, FRIBERG

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