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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Seikilos_epitaphSeikilos epitaph - Wikipedia

    The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world. [ citation needed ] The epitaph has been variously dated, but seems to be either from the 1st or the 2nd century AD.

  2. www.ancient-origins.net › artifacts-ancientSong of Seikilos: Oldest Known Musical Composition Lay Hidden ...

    Dec 5, 2016 · Print. 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 ...

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  4. www.classicfm.com › discover-music › seikilosEngraved on a tombstone almost 2,000 years ago, this is music ...

    Nov 4, 2021 · Hear the ‘Seikilos Epitaph’; written in Ancient Greece, it is the oldest surviving musical composition. Written in the 1st or 2nd century CE, the Song of Seikilos was discovered on a tombstone in Turkey in 1883. The song explores themes of the transience of life and the passage of time.

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  5. www.wired.com › 2009 › 10The Seikilos Epitaph: The Oldest Song in the World | WIRED

    Oct 29, 2009 · Older surviving fragments of musical works preserved on cuneiform tablets predate the epitaph by up to two millennia, but Seikilos’s song represents our earliest record of a full composition.

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  7. www.classicfm.com › discover-music › latestThe oldest complete composition in the world is utterly heart ...

    Sep 16, 2016 · The haunting Song of Seikilos is the oldest complete musical composition in existence and was engraved on a tombstone in the town of Tralles near modern-day Aydin in Turkey. The text says: While you live, shine. have no grief at all. life exists only for a short while. and time demands an end.

  8. allthatsinteresting.com › seikilos-epitaphSeikilos Epitaph: Listen To The Oldest Musical Composition In ...

    Jul 11, 2018 · Written sometime between 200 B.C. and 100 A.D., the Seikilos epitaph is the oldest complete musical composition in existence. The song was believed to have been written by a man as a tribute to his dead wife.

  9. www.history.com › news › what-is-the-oldest-knownWhat Is the Oldest Known Piece of Music? | HISTORY

    Dec 18, 2015 · “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” is considered the world’s earliest melody, but the oldest musical composition to have survived in its entirety is a first century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos...