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   What is the oldest surviving musical composition?

   • Picture: Wikimedia Commons 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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   What is the oldest surviving piece of music?

   • At almost 2000 years old, it’s believed to be the oldest surviving piece of music in the world. Listen to a performance of the musical engraving, as its tender, heartrending tones pass through millennia. The mournful lyrics have been translated from Ancient Greek to English.

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   What is the oldest song ever written?

   • “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 Epitaph.” The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman’s gravesite in Turkey.

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   How old is music?

   • The history of music is as old as humanity itself. Archaeologists have found primitive flutes made of bone and ivory dating back as far as 43,000 years, and it’s likely that many ancient musical styles have been preserved in oral traditions. When it comes to specific songs, however, the oldest known examples are relatively more recent.

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   How long has music been around?

   • Wikimedia Commons The marble stele on which the Seikilos epitaph was first found. It’s all but impossible to know just how long music has been around, since humans only started writing music down around the 14th century B.C. Archaeologists have discovered fragments of an ancient Sumerian hymn dating back to that period in the Syrian city of Ugarit.

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   How important was music in ancient times?

   • There is, no doubt, a mound of archaeological evidence that testifies how integral music was to the ancients’ way of life, but rarely have we been able to accurately and entirely reconstruct pieces of music that were played in those lost worlds. However, there have been a few successes.

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   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...

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   Nov 4, 2021 · 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. At almost 2000 years old, it’s believed to be the oldest surviving piece of music in the world.

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   The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation. [1][2] Commonly dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD, the inscription was found engraved on a pillar (stele) from the ancient Hellenistic town of Tralles (present-day Turkey) in 1883.

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   Apr 3, 2021 · It’s the oldest surviving melody and is over 3,400 years old. The hymn was discovered on a clay tablet in Ugarit, now part of modern-day Syria, and is dedicated the Hurrians’ goddess of the orchards Nikkal.

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   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.

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   Aug 26, 2019 · When it comes to the oldest surviving complete musical composition, a song that we can play and enjoy in its intended clarity and completeness, that is a legacy of the ancient Greeks. The Seikilos epitaph, discovered in 1885 at the site of the ancient Greek city of Tralles (modern-day Aydın, Turkey), is dated to somewhere between the 2nd ...

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   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.