Echoes of Ancient Greece...(2 of 4)

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This video features my arrangement for solo lyre of "The Song of Seikilos", unique in musical history, as it is the only piece of music from antiquity in the entire Western world, that has SO far been found, which has survived in its COMPLETE form, and unlike much earlier surviving fragments of melodies that have been found, this song is written in a totally unambiguous ALPHABETICAL musical notation, which can be played, note for note, as it was written...2000 YEARS AGO:

http://www.amaranthpublishing.com/SongOfSeikilos.htm

This melody is an amazing musical legacy from ancient Greece; a precious remnant of a long-forgotten musical culture now forever lost in the mists of time...

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About 2000 years after it was written, this melody was rediscovered in 1883, in its complete & original form. It was found inscribed in marble on an ancient Greek burial stele, bearing the following epitaph: "I am a portrait in stone. I was put here by Seikilos, where I remain forever, the symbol of timeless remembrance".

The timeless words of the song are:

"Hoson zes, phainou
Meden holos su lupou;
Pros oligon esti to zen
To telos ho chronos apaitei"

Translation - "While you live, shine
Don't suffer anything at all;
Life exists only a short while
And time demands its toll"

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[norabertoni]

Thanks Klezfiddle for the opportunity of sharing this pure music so well accompanied by a sample of the beauty we inherited from greeks. Nora

[654321654321]

fascinating music and information. thank you very much.

[dwellyn]

I'm glad that someone is breathing life back into music that has gathered dust for so long. Great job.

[rakkav]

Indeed, a drinking song...although the Greeks could and did drink in a genteel way from bowls sometimes. This would be an Apollonian drinking song most likely...although it lends itself to much more Dionysian treatment too!