The earliest-known musical score is a clay tablet found in Ugarit, northern Syria, that dates back to around 1400 BC
PHOTO: ALBUM / ALAMYWe’ve all heard the line, variously attributed to Elvis Costello, Frank Zappa, Thelonious Monk and even Clara Schumann (though the last seems unlikely): “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”
It’s a cliché. But while dancing about architecture would undoubtedly be tricky, you could try. Certainly, millions of words have been expended on attempting