The song is from the 1st Century AD, Greece. Sounds like Nick Drake.
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The Seikilos epitaph is a Hellenistic Ionic song in Phrygian octave species and the oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world. The song, the melody of which is recorded, alongside its lyrics, in the ancient Greek musical notation, was found engraved on a tombstone, near Aidin, Turkey (not far from Ephesus).
While you live, shine
have no grief at all
life exists only for a short while
and time demands its toll.
That’s a reassuring and comforting message just before I call it a night.
That beats the hell out of rap music any day.
But then, what doesn’t?
lovely! thanx. ( could have left out the bowed instrument, though, for purity).
phrygian mode
Dick Dale and the Dale Tones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwx2pephwKU
Jellybean, you have a point on the rap music.
Very nice,
Thank you!
Toby! never knew Dick Dale came from the East coast,, wow, Thanks,,
Rap ‘music’?
Right Anonymous, Rap has no music in it.
@Anon, that’s what’s known as an oxymoron.
I wasn’t expecting the complexity, a nice piece of music.
I can’t. God can. And Jesus did.
The “C” is silent.
Alison Krause should put that on her next album.
It sounds a lot like this –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=18&v=ZETz5CG_geo
“We built pyramids before Donald Trump even knew what architecture was. We taught philosophy and astrology [sic] and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it…Do some cracker come and tell you, ‘Well my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket. That ain’t nothing to be proud of, that means their forefathers was crooks.” – Not So Sharpton
It’s amazing that the recording quality is this good after 1900 years!
The original “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” song? 😁 (only the ancient song isn’t annoying, just beautiful)
Yep, Nick Drake-ish.
Somebody got their modes mixed up. It’s mixolydian, not phrygian.