The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation. This track was build upon a rendition of the score found on the Epitaph of Seikilos, originally sung using Koine Greek pronunciation, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Marcus Harvey. Both the original and this file are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- eikṑn ḗ líthos eimí. títhēsí me Seikílos éntha mnḗmēs athanátou sêma polykhrónion. I, the stone, am an image and Seikilos places me here, a long-lasting monument to immortal memory [classic Greek] Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ [English] While you live, shine bright Don't let sorrow you benight We don't have life for long, my friend To everything time demands an end
