Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Seikilos Epitaph

In one of the earlier posts I questioned the wisdom of putting music notation on your tombstone. I might have been wrong. At least one guy achieved immortality and endless gratitude of music historians by doing just that: The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world + the score.

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