Hey, Antonis Remos has a cult following. He can't even walk down the street in Athens!
Well, that's his problem.
Posted on 04/19/2019 7:57:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Seikilos Stele contains the the oldest complete song and dates to c.100 BCE. This video explores how the stele was found and how the song sounds; it is sung at 2:28.
As long as you live,
shine forth do not at all grieve,
Life exists for a short while,
Time takes its course.
Hoson zēis phainou
mēden holōs su lupou
pros oligon esti to zēn
to telos ho chronos apaitei.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
:-)
Needs more cowbell!
I gotta fever.
And the only cure for that fever is more cowbell!
Cheap fabric and dim lighting.
That’s how you move merchandise.
Hey, Antonis Remos has a cult following. He can't even walk down the street in Athens!
Well, that's his problem.
That Kramer and Newman...those two guys always know how to make money!
And they’re pretty good at Risk! from what I hear.
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....
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.
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.
99 Bottles of wine on the wall, 99 bottles of wine..................
By the time they finish 100 amphorae of wine or retsina, they wouldn't be able to remember the words, or sing, period. :^)
Those archeologists really know how to read the writing on the wall.
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