THE SEIKILOS "SCORE"

Using modern musical notation the tune can now be played or sung by modern musicians. This particular melody is the earliest example available of music representative from the late first/ early 2^nd Century. This was a drinking song!

THE TEXT & TRANSLANTION

Hoson zes, phainou/ While you live, shine

Meden holos su lupou / Don't suffer anything at all

Pros oligon esti to zen/ Life is short

To telos ho chronos apaitei/ And time demands its toll

ADDITIONAL RESOURCE COLLECTIONS

Historical Anthology of Music. Two volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1949. ISBN 0674393007

Chinese Music. J.A. van Aalst, 1884, 1933.

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980.

China. Rulan Chao Pan, 1980.

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