The Oldest Song in the World by Ancient Greek Artist Seikilos

 

By Tasos Kokkinidis

The first complete musical composition, Seikilos Epitaph. Credit: Lennart Larsen Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

The oldest song to have survived in its entirety is a first-century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.”

The song, the melody of which is recorded, alongside its lyrics, in the ancient Greek musical notation, was found in 1883 engraved on a pillar (a stele) from the Hellenistic town of Tralles near present-day Aydın, Turkey, not far from Ephesus.

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