Raoul Gregory Vitale
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Job / Known for: Musicology, Ancient history
Left traces: Determination of Babylonian musical scales
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Date: 1928-02-12
Location: SY Latakia
Died
Date: 2003-09-29 (aged 75)
Resting place: SY Latakia
Death Cause: Natural causes
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Parent(s): John James Alfred Vitale and Olivia Vitale
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Raoul Gregory Vitale 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 is considered to be the first known complete musical notation. He was born in Latakia, Syria, on 12 February 1928. His family was of Italian origin and migrated to Syria in the beginning of the 18th century. He attended the French Frères des écoles chrétiennes school in Latakia for primary, secondary and high school, then he studied physics in the American University of Beirut in Lebanon where he got a master's degree in physical science. He taught physics in the American University of Beirut and in the Lebanese University. He married in Lebanon and had three male children. In 1975, Vitale came back with his family to Latakia, Syria, after the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War, and worked in trading. He died on 29 September 2003. Beside physics Vitale was interested in music theory and the ancient history of the Middle East. In his youth he was a member of the Musical Club in Latakia and the Committee of Ugarit Friends, then the Archaeological Society of Latakia (Adiyat) where he served as the head of the cultural committee for many years. He studied the ancient history of the Middle East and musical theories as hobbies, and wrote and lectured many essays in those two subjects. One of his most remarkable works was the reconsideration of the Babylonian musical scales and giving the first complete description of all of its notes, the work which was accepted widely and confirmed by newer researchers. Also very remarkable was giving a new interpretation of the Hurrian Hymn 6 which is the most ancient musical notation known, giving the first complete interpretation. Among his other researches was a study on the order of the Ugaritic alphabet which was the basis of the Greek, Latin and Arabic alphabets orders.
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