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The Seikilos Song: the Oldest Complete Song from Ancient Greece
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Posted on 04/19/2019 7:57:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
To: Larry Lucido
Needs more cowbell!
I gotta fever.
And the only cure for that fever is more cowbell!
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04/20/2019 12:45:16 PM PDT
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SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Larry Lucido
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04/20/2019 12:46:11 PM PDT
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SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris; SunkenCiv; Gamecock
Whattya got here, Sakis Rouvas, Live at the Parthenon, you got Antonis Remos, now come on...
Hey, Antonis Remos has a cult following. He can't even walk down the street in Athens!
Well, that's his problem.
To: Larry Lucido
That Kramer and Newman...those two guys always know how to make money!
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04/20/2019 1:07:46 PM PDT
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SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SunkenCiv
Fair enough, it’s Greek. This is not the “oldest song” out there though, by a long shot, and most have a whole large collection of much older songs already on their bookshelf.
They lack the musical scores, OK. Doesn’t sound like they’re sure of the actual tune from this Greek piece either....
To: AnalogReigns
This is not the oldest song out there though...
That must be why the title of the article and topic is "The Seikilos Song: the Oldest Complete Song from Ancient Greece". The musical notation being included is one of the things that makes this rare, not to mention, it's a 21 century old original, not a textual copy of a copy of a copy with intervening translations and transliterations.
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04/20/2019 11:15:22 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: AnalogReigns
In many (most?) countries the singing of Christian hymns is from song books with no notes, just the words.
You learn the melody to these songs from birth. They don't need to be written down.
Probably no different than any culture ever, until the invention of musical annotation in any group.
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04/21/2019 8:18:35 AM PDT
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To: SunkenCiv
99 Bottles of wine on the wall, 99 bottles of wine..................
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04/22/2019 6:11:20 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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05/02/2019 12:55:41 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Red Badger
By the time they finish 100 amphorae of wine or retsina, they wouldn't be able to remember the words, or sing, period. :^)
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05/02/2019 12:56:49 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: P.O.E.
Those archeologists really know how to read the writing on the wall.
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05/02/2019 1:34:22 AM PDT
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