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Seikilos epitaph Σεικίλου Σκόλιον Ancient Greek Music 100 AD Gabriel Garrido
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SEIKILOS EPITAPH • Σεικίλου Σκόλιον [100 A.D.] • The epitaph of Seikilos was discovered by Sir W.M. • Ramsay in 1883, near Aydin in Turkey (close to • Ephesus), in Asia Minor. It is dated between 200 BC • and 100 AD, and it contains a song which is • considered to be the oldest complete musical • composition ever found. Seikilos was a lyric poet and • musician during the Hellenistic period, and his song • is dedicated to his wife, Euterpe. (After the poem the • epitaph writes Σείκιλος-Ευτέρ[πη] , which means • Seikilos to Euterpe. ) The marble stele which bears • the text and song was lost during the Greco-Turkish • War (1919-1922), but it was found later. At the • moment it is located in the National Museum of • Denmark (Nationalmuseet), in Copenhagen. • The song uses ancient greek notation, in which • pitches are written as letters above the syllables, • while the durations of the notes are depicted by signs • over those letters (e.g. no lines means one duration; • one line means double duration, etc). The song is a • skolion (σκόλιον μέλος), and it is a kind of song that • would be sung at the end of a symposium, usually • accompanied by a lyre. • Miti Amari, Nadia Caristi, Picci Ferrari, Letizia Manzella, Donatella Triolo, Luisa Migliorino, Fortunata Prinzivalli, Giovanni Caccamo, Angelo Quartarone, Pietro Valguarnera, Aurelio Fragapane, Carlo Oliva • Associazione per la Musica Antica Antonio Il Verso / Gabriel Garrido (conductor) • http://www.antonioilverso.it/index.html • 1993 - DDD • [on authentic instruments] • --- • Ὅσον ζῇς, φαίνου, • μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ· • πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν, • τὸ τέλος ὁ xρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.
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