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Raoul Gregory Vitale

Musicologist

Died when: 75 years 229 days (907 months)
Star Sign: Aquarius

 

Raoul Gregory Vitale

Raoul Gregory Vitale (12 February 1928 – 29 September 2003) was a Syrian musicologist who introduced the total description of the ancient Babylonian musical scales used in Music of Mesopotamia and Near East, and also a complete interpretation of the musical notation of the Hurrian Hymn 6 discovered in Ugarit which was considered to be the first known complete musical notation.


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