Seikilos Epitaph
The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world. The epitaph has been variously dated, but seems to be either from the 1st or the 2nd century CE. The song, the melody of which is recorded, alongside its lyrics, in the Musical notation#Ancient Greece, ancient Greek musical notation, was found engraved on a tombstone (a stele) from the Hellenistic town of Tralles (diocese), Tralles near present-day Aydın, Turkey, not far from Ephesus. It is a Hellenistic period, Hellenistic Ionia, Ionic song in either the Mode (music)#Greek scales, Phrygian octave species or Musical system of ancient Greece#Ionian (Iastian), Iastian tonos. While older music with notation exists (for example the Hurrian songs), all of it is in fragments; the Seikilos epitaph is unique in that it is a complete, though short, composition. Inscription text and lyrics The following is the Greek text found on the tombstone (in the later Gr ...
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The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world. The epitaph has been variously dated, but seems to be either from the 1st or the 2nd century CE. The song, the melody of which is recorded, alongside its lyrics, in the Musical notation#Ancient Greece, ancient Greek musical notation, was found engraved on a tombstone (a stele) from the Hellenistic town of Tralles (diocese), Tralles near present-day Aydın, Turkey, not far from Ephesus. It is a Hellenistic period, Hellenistic Ionia, Ionic song in either the Mode (music)#Greek scales, Phrygian octave species or Musical system of ancient Greece#Ionian (Iastian), Iastian tonos. While older music with notation exists (for example the Hurrian songs), all of it is in fragments; the Seikilos epitaph is unique in that it is a complete, though short, composition. Inscription text and lyrics The following is the Greek text found on the tombstone (in the later Gr ...
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Capital Letter
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing systems that distinguish between the upper and lowercase have two parallel sets of letters, with each letter in one set usually having an equivalent in the other set. The two case variants are alternative representations of the same letter: they have the same name and pronunciation and are treated identically when sorting in alphabetical order. Letter case is generally applied in a mixed-case fashion, with both upper and lowercase letters appearing in a given piece of text for legibility. The choice of case is often prescribed by the grammar of a language or by the conventions of a particular discipline. In orthography, the uppercase is primarily reserved for special purposes, such as the first letter of a sentence or of a proper noun (ca ...
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