Comprises all the textual material related to studies of theoretical and practical music of the Ancient Near East from 3500 BC to 500 BC. Includes full bibliographical sources, the most comprehensive iconography of the musical instruments for the same period and the only terminological lexicon. The book is indispensable to both the Assyriologist and the musicologist. The book is currently hosted at the British Museum, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Vienna and other leading universities where it is considered as the reference work.