June 2013
Epitaph Of Seikilos
This is the Epitaph of Seikilos. It is the earliest complete music composition with notation ever discovered. It dates from somewhere between 100 BC and 100 AD. There are earlier examples of music to be sure - the Delphic Hymns, of course, as well as some early Japenese and Chinese ceremonial music, but it’s all either fragmented or unable to be dated due to oral tradition.
The original ‘score’, such as it is, doesn’t look like much to our modern eyes:
If you translate that into Western notation, however:
This is music that is two thousand years old. It could have been played when Christ walked the earth. And thanks to music being a universal language, we can hear those exact same notes, like a piece of history coming to life in front of us. Isn’t that just incredible?
This is ravishing and hypnotic and gives me waves of goosebumps. For real. FOR REAL.
Listen
OMG GUYS, IT’S COMPLETE
Artist/Composer: Neil Finn, Howard Shore
Song name: Song of the Lonely Mountain
Released: 11 December 2012Lyrics:
Far over the Misty Mountains rise
Leave us standing upon the height
What was before, we see once more
Is our kingdom, a distant light
Fiery mountain beneath the moon
The words aren’t spoken, we’ll be there soon
For home a song that echoes on
And all who find us will know the tune
Some folk we never forget
Some kind we never forgive
Haven’t seen the back of us yet
We’ll fight as long as we live
All lies on the hidden door
To the Lonely Mountain bourne
We’ll ride in the gathering storm
Until we get our long forgotten gold
We lay under the Misty Mountains cold
In slumbers deep, and dreams of gold
We must awake, our lives to make
And in the darkness a torch we hold
From long ago when lanterns burned
Until this day our hearts have yearned
A fate unknown; the Arkenstone
What was stolen must be returned
We must away, and make the day
To find our song, for heart and soul
Some folk we never forget
Some kind we never forgive
Haven’t seen the end of it yet
We’ll fight as long as we live
All lies on the hidden door
To the Lonely Mountain bourne
We’ll ride in the gathering storm
Till we get our long forgotten gold
Far away the Misty Mountains cold
gabs-magical-abs replied to your post: ok now that i have finished hp there’s books to…
Mort is a fantastic book! One of my favourites!
oooh good to hear that! :)
“If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.”
—
Jane Espenson (from interview with Advocate.com)\
I dunno how many which ways this needs to be said
(via aragingquiet)
ok now that i have finished hp there’s
books to finish:
-the fellowship of the ring
-mort, by Terry Pratchett
-a dance with dragons, but id have to reread the whole series
books to start:
-the black cauldron
[breathes heavily] older women
when it comes to reading i’m either reading 400 pages a day or taking a month to read 200 there is no inbetween
Share 10 facts about yourself then pass this onto your 10 favorite followers. :) (jejeje :=B)
-it takes me an incredible amount of time to peel an apple
-i watched the l word and read the millennium chronicles when i was 13
-today im gonna finish the deathly hallows for the first time, wish me luck
-after that im gonna read the fourth book of the discworld series
-and the second of the prydain chronicles
-i’ve lost my ebook help
-one chapter left of hp now
-im going to the beach tomorrow
-mechanical sounds irritate me
-im too lazy to continue the chain sorry
