2nd millennium BC in music

Events

• 2000 BC - Percussion instruments are added to Egyptian orchestras.
• 2000 BC - The trumpet is played in Denmark.
• 1580–1295 BC - Harps are played in Egypt.
• 1500 BC - Guitar, lyre, trumpet, and tambourine are used by the Hittites.
• 1400 BC - Hurrian songs, the oldest musical notation, is written in the ancient Amorite-Canaanite city of Ugarit.