Still Waters Posted December 10, 2016 #1 Share Posted December 10, 2016 The Song of Seikilos is the oldest complete surviving music composition in the world engraved in a marble stele that served as a flower stand. The beautiful composition, also known as the ‘Seikilos epitaph’, dates from around the first or second century AD, and was inconspicuously being kept in the garden of a Turkish woman prior to its current placement in the National Museum of Denmark. The Song of Seikilos was discovered carved on a marble column-shaped stele in Tralleis, near Ephesus in Turkey, in 1883. Although short in length, this piece of the past has remarkable historical value in its rarity as an artifact. It is not the oldest song in the world, which is attributed to a Sumerian hymn, but it is unique as the sole composition which has remained complete throughout history. http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/song-seikilos-oldest-known-musical-composition-lay-hidden-flower-stand-02197?nopaging=1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted December 10, 2016 #2 Share Posted December 10, 2016 ~ ~ 00:02.37 Quote Jul 17, 2015 - Uploaded by Dimitris M Papadakis The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition in the world, more on googles link ~ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brlesq1 Posted December 10, 2016 #3 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Beautifully haunting. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vorg Posted December 11, 2016 #4 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Both version of words are neat. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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