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The Oxyrhynchus hymn is the only surviving fragment of notated Christian Greek music from the first four hundred years of the Christian period, [8] although historian and musician Kenneth Levy has argued that the Sanctus melody best preserved in the Western medieval Requiem mass dates from around the fourth century. [9]
The "Hymn to Liberty", [a] also known as the "Hymn to Freedom", [b] is a Greek poem written by Dionysios Solomos in 1823 and set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros in 1828. It officially became the national anthem of Greece in 1864 and Cyprus in 1966. Consisting of 158 stanzas in total, is the longest national anthem in the world by length of text. [3]
Fragments of both hymns in the Delphi Archaeological Museum. The Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments.They were long regarded as being dated c. 138 BC and 128 BC, respectively, but recent scholarship has shown it likely they were both written for performance at the Athenian Pythaids in 128 BC. [1]
In Greek mythology, Aoede / eɪ ˈ iː d iː / (Ancient Greek: Ἀοιδή, Aoidē) was one of the three original Boeotian muses, which later grew to five before the Nine Olympian Muses were named. Her sisters were Melete and Mneme. She was the muse of voice and song. She lends her name to the moon Jupiter XLI, also called Aoede, which orbits ...
While older music with notation exists (e.g. the Hurrian songs or the Delphic Hymns), all of it is in fragments; the Seikilos epitaph is unique in that it is a complete, though short, composition. Based on its structure and language, the artifact is generally understood to have been an epitaph (a tombstone inscription) created by a man named ...
Alypius of Alexandria (Ancient Greek: Ἀλύπιος) was a Greek writer on music who flourished in the 4th century CE. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Of his works, only a small fragment has been preserved, under the title of Introduction to Music ( Εἰσαγωγὴ Μουσική ).
Hera, goddess of marriage, family, women, and childbirth, queen of the gods, wife of Zeus; Hades, god of the Underworld, one of the big three; Demeter, goddess of agriculture; Artemis, goddess of the moon, archery and virginity; Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, fertility and love; Eros, god of love (greek cupid) Muses. Calliope, goddess of epic ...
Marsyas receiving Apollo's punishment, İstanbul Archaeology Museum. In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas (/ ˈ m ɑːr s i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Μαρσύας) is a central figure in two stories involving music: in one, he picked up the double oboe that had been abandoned by Athena and played it; [1] [2] in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life.