Composer : | Anonymous | ||
Instrumentation : | Piano solo | ||
Style : | Celebratory | ||
Key : | G♭ major | ||
Arranger : Publisher : | Zencovich, Antonio (1953 - ) | ||
Lyricist : | Anonymous | ||
Langage : | Greek | ||
Date : | about 200 B.C | ||
Copyright : | Copyright © Antonio Zencovich | ||
Added by anan, 30 Jan 2019 The Seikilos epitaph, carved on a funerary stele from Haydin in Turkey, kept in the National Museum of Copenhagen, is the oldest musical score that has come to us intact. There are more ancient ones (here we published the Hurrian Hymn No. 6, dated about 1400 BC), but they are not complete, or they don’t contain a melody that can be reconstructed with sufficient certainty. Here instead, thanks to the use of the letters of the Greek alphabet, according to the scheme - taken from Wikipedia - reproduced above the title, it is possible to reconstruct the degrees of the Greek scale (formed by two equivalent tetrachords, like our major scale), as well as the accents and the duration of the notes. The tonality is not indicated, and neither is the indication of time. In current transcriptions, ternary times are usually proposed; we however, considered the funeral destination of the melody, preferred to adopt a binary one. |
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