{"id":15632,"date":"2013-11-01T07:19:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T12:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=15632"},"modified":"2013-11-01T08:08:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T13:08:01","slug":"further-reading-listening-music-of-ancient-greece-continues-to-yield-sound-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/11\/01\/further-reading-listening-music-of-ancient-greece-continues-to-yield-sound-clues\/","title":{"rendered":"Further reading & listening: Music of Ancient Greece continues to yield sound clues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This piece of 2000-year-old column, the Seikilos Epitaph, is inscribed with a short song.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While you’re alive, shine:\/ never let your mood decline.\/ We’ve a brief span of life to spend:\/ Time necessitates an end<\/em>. That little song is straight off an Ancient Greek column — and scholars think they know more about what its melody may have sounded like.<\/p>\n

Inexplicably buried in the Business pages of the BBC News website is an article by one of those scholars, Armand d’Angour<\/a>, Classics Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, explaining in lay language how he and his fellow travellers have been figuring out the music notation of Ancient Greece.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, the rules of intervals of two millennia-plus ago are not alien to our ears. D’Angour also writes of how the recitation of Homeric poetry might have sounded like.<\/p>\n

You can find the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is Kostas Katsouranis singing his version of the Seikilos song:<\/p>\n