Editing Music theory (section)

====Mesopotamia====
{{see also|Music of Mesopotamia}}

Several surviving [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] and [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] [[clay tablet]]s include musical information of a theoretical nature, mainly lists of [[Interval (music)|intervals]] and [[Musical tuning|tunings]].<ref>{{harvnb|Mirelman|2010}}; {{harvnb|Mirelman|2013}}; {{harvnb|Wulstan|1968}}; {{harvnb|Kümmel|1970}}; {{harvnb|Kilmer|1971}}; {{harvnb|Kilmer and Mirelman|n.d.}}</ref> The scholar Sam Mirelman reports that the earliest of these texts dates from before 1500&nbsp;BCE, a millennium earlier than surviving evidence from any other culture of comparable musical thought. Further, "All the Mesopotamian texts [about music] are united by the use of a terminology for music that, according to the approximate dating of the texts, was in use for over 1,000 years."{{sfn|Mirelman|2013|loc=43–44}}