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  Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2002399540
166 4.4 Alkaios' hymn to Hera, Zeus and Dionysos.
187 5.1 Pindar's Theban hymn to Zeus...............191 5.2 Pindar's Theban dithyramb.................
..328 10.4 A narrative hymn in Iphigeneia in Tauris..........
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 Hymns - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The hymn of our Lord, the precepts of the apostles, the angelic song at the nativity, and " Benedicite omnia opera " are referred to in a curious metrical prologue to the hymnary of the Mozarabic Breviary as precedents for the practice of the Western Church.
The Latin form of this hymn (of which that in the English communion office is an exact translation) is said, by Bede and other ancient writers, to have been brought into use at Rome by Pope Telesphorus, as early as.
There are also, in the hymns of the primitive period (even in those of Ambrose), anticipations - irregular indeed and inconstant, but certainly not accidental - of another great innovation, destined to receive important developments, that of assonance or rhyme, in the final letters or syllables of verses.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Hymns   (11127 words)

  
 Hymn
Although the hymn was originally intended for singing and only for singing, the development of the form soon led to hymns being recited aloud or used as silent prayers.
Hymn in the closer interpretation of the word, as it will be shortly shown, is a hymn of the Breviary.
Either the hymn belongs to the sacrificial liturgy of the Mass, and as such has its place in the official books of the Mass-liturgy (the Missal or the Gradual), or the hymn belongs to the liturgy of canonical prayer and has its place accordingly in the Breviary or the Antiphonary.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/h/hymn.html   (1640 words)

  
 Antigoni Goni
Hymn to the Muse is based on some of the oldest written music our culture has preserved.
The Delphic Hymns to Apollo are from the second century B.C.E. were inscribed on the walls of the Athenian Treasury at Delphi.
The transparent creto-paeonic meter of the first Delphic Hymn to Apollo (5/8) thus, alternates with a more complex meter of the Hymn to Nemesis (15/8).
www.balaton-guitar.com /antigoni.html   (1660 words)

  
 DELPHI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The original celebrations in honour of the Pythian Apollo consisted of musical contests and the judging of the merits of hymns composed in honor of the god sung to the accompaniment of the lyre.
The new master of the Delphic oracle brought a new spirit with him - the spirit, in fact, that was to dominate the social and political life of the Greeks for centuries to come.
The Delphic oracle did not deny its consent to the aristocratic government of Lycurgus, which meant abolition of the autocratic rule of the kings, nor to the republic of Cleisthenes, which meant abolition of aristocratic clans.
campus.queens.edu /faculty/gooder/Greece/delphi1.htm   (4116 words)

  
 Delphic Hymns Information
The first portion of the First Delphic Hymn, to be played on the kithara; the next section, not shown, is to be played on the aulos.
In addition to being the earliest surviving substantial fragment of ancient music, the First Delphic Hymn is also the longest; unfortunately it is not a complete composition (the Seikilos epitaph, dated anywhere between the 2nd century BC and the 1st century AD, is the earliest surviving complete piece of music).
While the kithara was used for the first section of the first hymn, the second section is to be performed on the aulos; it is also considerably chromatic.
www.bookrags.com /Delphic_Hymns   (435 words)

  
 HYMNS - Online Information article about HYMNS
Romanos, of whom little more is known than that he wrote hymns still extant, and lived towards the end of that century.
An ode is a song or hymn compounded of several similar "troparia," —usually three, four or five.
rubric of the " ode." A hymn in irregular " stichera " or stanzas, without a " hirmus," is called " idiomelon." A system of three or four odes is " triodion " or " tetraodion." A canon is a system of eight (theoretically nine) connected odes, the second being always suppressed.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /HOR_I25/HYMNS.html   (5836 words)

  
 Music - Hymns : St. Dominic Savio Parish, Wadala,(E) Mumbai
Hymn : A derivative of the Latin hymnus, which comes from the Greek hymnos, derived from hydein, to sing.
The expression "praise of God" must not however be taken so literally as to exclude the praise of his saints.
The religious song or hymn in the broader sense comprises a great number of different poems, the classification of which is not mentioned by Saint Augustine and which is in reality first completely introduced in the "
www.dominicsavio.com /music_hymn.htm   (1622 words)

  
 hymns&init
For that hymns were written by Orpheus is testified by Plato in the eighth book of his Laws, and by Pausanias in his Boeotics, who also says that they were few and short; from whence, as Fabricius justly observes, it appears that they were no other than those which are now extant.
And in short, the greater part of the hymns will be found to have either the word `telestai' in them, or to invoke the respective divinities to bless the mystics or initiated persons.
Thus the conclusion of the Hymn to Heaven entreats that divinity to confer a blessed life on a recent mystic: the conclusion of the Hymn to the Sun, to impart by illumination a pleasant life to the mystics: And in a similar manner most of the other hymns.
www.prometheus.cwc.net /pt-vol05.htm   (8217 words)

  
 Omphalos - Finding the Centre
The tradition was reinforced by votive gifts, in navel-form, which were sent to the Delphic oracle for many centuries: one of these was an impressive eagle-adorned omphalos of the fifth century B.C. A later omphalos can be seen in the museum at Delphi.
The Apollonian Hymns, carved in the square stones of the Athenian Treasure House are just some of the stone inscriptions found in Delphi.
These Hymns to Apollo were sung at the commencement of the Pythian Games to commemorate Apollo's victory over the Python, and in the springtime to celebrate Apollo's return to his Delphic sanctuary in a car drawn by swans.
www.dailywriting.net /omphalos.htm   (800 words)

  
 Greco-Roman Recommended Reading
The homeric hymns are a collection of poems that celebrate indivual gods.
No, Homer did not write the hymns; they are called Homeric because they are written in dactylic hexameter, mirrored in the image of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
These hymns are definately helpful for information of how gods brought about their mystery cults and how ancient writers retold the stories of origin for the gods and goddesses.
eden.rutgers.edu /~lokisena/425/Final2/reading.htm   (706 words)

  
 Delphi - Pathways to Ancient Myth
Additionally, two hymns to Apollo were found inscribed upon its walls.
Next to the treasury are the foundations of the Bouleuterion, seat of the 15 members of the Delphic senate.
Across the way from the Treasury are a few remains of the former Treasury of the Syracusans and the Treasury of the Knidians, built in Parian marble.
www.calvin.edu /academic/clas/pathways/delphi/dapp5.htm   (149 words)

  
 Be Jackson Pollock at Addison Road   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Of your artwork I would say, with the synergy of the electronic environment, the flux is conceiving a point where it will be free from the chaos to transcend immersions into the parameters of the delphic artifice.
In the material space, art objects are reproductions of the creations of the mind — a mind that uses the body as a machine to materialize ideas, patterns, and emotions.
With the evolution of the electronic environment, the mind is reaching a point where it will be free from the body to share immersions into the parameters of the delphic space.
addisonrd.com /WordPress/?p=668   (481 words)

  
 Salem Press
B.C.E. To imagine the priestess "prophesying," that is, foretelling the future or uttering pithy, cryptic sayings, is to misunderstand, according to modern scholarship, normal Delphic procedure.
Delphic moderation tended toward passivity, and was successful insofar as its member cities tended in the same direction.
Athletics and Oracles: The Transformation of Olympia and Delphi in the Eighth Century B.C. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
salempress.com /store/samples/ancient_greece/ancient_greece_delphic.htm   (1408 words)

  
 Seikilos epitaph
While older music with notation exists (for example the Delphic Hymns), all of it is in fragments; the Seikilos epitaph is unique in that it is a complete, though short, composition.
It is based on this conjecture that Aalst dates the "Entrance Hymn for the Emperor" to c.
Even allowing for the hypothesis that the Emperor's court musicians transmitted these melodies with complete fidelity over sixteen centuries and that the Chinese court ceremonies never changed, there is no material evidence to date the composition, or any other piece of Chinese music, to earlier than the Tang dynasty (Pan).
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/SeikilosEpitaph.html   (344 words)

  
 Ancient Greek Music (recording)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
It came with extensive notes which mention "two systems of notaion: one instrumental, comprised of 15 distinct signs probably derived from an archaic alphabet, and the other vocal based on the 24 letters of the Ionic alphabet.
The two types of notation were used indiscriminately as is borne out by the Delphic Hymns and the Pythian Ode of Pindar.
The latter has come down to us thanks to Atanasius Kircher who studied it and made a copy of it in the 16th century." Reconstructed instruments are used.
www.ptg.org /pipermail/pianotech/1998-February/026840.html   (302 words)

  
 The Homeric Hymns eBook
Such is the medley of prehistoric ideas in Greece, while the charm and poetry of the Hymns are due mainly to the unique genius of the fully developed Hellenic race.
The combination of good and bad, of ancestral rites and ideas, of native taste, of philosophical refinement on inherited theology, could not last; the elements were too discordant.
That help was brought by the Christian creed, and, officially, Gods, rites, and myths vanished, while, unofficially, they partially endure, even to this day, in Romaic folk-lore.
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/16338/32.html   (317 words)

  
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A particularly interesting finding is that the Delphic hymns show evidence for tonal effects of aspirated stops on following vowels.
The Delphic hymns show pitch rise correlating with emphatic focus (479).
A particularly welcome section concerns discontinuous phrases in Greek and the interaction of discontinuity and resyllabification; DS's results here should be extended by other researchers to Latin and the other ancient Indo-European languages (480f.).
www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-9510-fortson-prosody.txt   (2443 words)

  
 Seikilos epitaph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The find has been dated variously from around 200 BC to around AD While older music with notation exists (for example the Delphic Hymns), all of it is in fragments; the Seikilos epitaph is unique in that it is a complete, though short, composition.
Van Aalst), the musical compositions themselves are likely to have been performed, even in 1000 BC, in precisely the manner prescribed by the sources that were written down in the seventh century AD.
It is based on this conjecture that Van Aalst dates the "Entrance Hymn for the Emperor" to c.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seikilos_epitaph   (474 words)

  
 Missa1
While a more in-depth chronological discussion of the development of ancient-Greek music would go beyond the scope of this brief look at the topic, we might wish to briefly consider some of the overall forms of artistic expression in the context of which music was used in ancient-Greek culture:
In the hymns in praise of Apollo, with Kithara accompaniment, that, according to Riemann, later also developed into the presentation of the first epic tales that, as he explains, were actually sung and not spoken to Kithara accompaniment;
Delphic Hymns to Apollon by LIMENIOS, 2nd Century B.C. Hymns: To Nemesis; To the Sun; Prelude to Calliope and Apollon, by MESOMEDE, 2nd Century A.D.
www.raptusassociation.org /missaemusgeschalt.html   (623 words)

  
 De La Pierre Au Son: Ancient Greek Music [CC]: Classical CD Reviews- Feb 2003 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Still, the experience of travelling so far back in time is a powerful one: try track 4, the first of the two Delphic Hymns to Apollo dating from 128BC and unearthed in June 1893, with its arresting, percussive opening and its dynamic, unison voices.
Many of the trits are found in the other Delphic Hymn on this recording.
Interestingly, the collection ends with a Christian Hymn (3rd century AD), overlapping the end of Ancient Greek and the beginning of Christian sacred music.
www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2003/Feb03/Pierre_au_Son.htm   (416 words)

  
 Delphic Hymns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name of the composer has also survived, in a separate inscription: Limenius.
Photograph of the original stone at Delphi containing the second of the two hymns to Apollo.
Ensemble Kérylos is the only group which plays ancient greek music on fac-similes of ancient greek instruments.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Delphic_Hymns   (499 words)

  
 Sacred Music in Antiquity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The above-mentioned song tablet from Ugarit is a hymn to the local moon goddess (Nikkal, wife of the moon god).
Kilmer's reconstruction of the hymn assumed that the intervals described in the tablet actually represented harmony.
A Greek composer adopted a scale known and used in Judah (superficially similar to the Greek "Dorian" mode) for use in a hymn dedicated to Zeus; and we have already mentioned the Greeks' borrowing of the nabla or nablas, which was simply another form of the nevel used by the Hebrews.
www.rakkav.com /kdhinc/pages/sacred.htm   (5161 words)

  
 NationalAnthems.us Online Forum - Delphic Hymn to Apollo
Moreover, it was not by chance that at the conclusion of the first day (16 June) of the conference, de Coubertin chose to have the first Delphic Hymn to Apollo performed.
The hymn had been discovered at Delphi only a year before by the French School of Archeology.
The first portion of the First Delphic Hymn, to be played on the kithara.
www.nationalanthems.us /cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1137659125/0   (609 words)

  
 RECITAL REVIEW: Engaging Fare By Scott Cmiel (Antigoni Goni, October 23, 2005)
On Saturday at Herbst Theater, Greek guitarist Antigoni Goni brought formidable technical and interpretive abilities to bear on a fascinating program featuring a world premiere, compelling but rarely performed works from Greece, Japan, Cuba, and Brazil, as well as a spellbinding reading of one of the most popular works in the guitar repertoire.
The first performance of Dusan Bogdanovic's Hymn to the Muse, based on some of the oldest written music our culture has preserved, was for me the highlight of the recital.
Using the ancient modes and unusual rhythmic structures of the originals, Bogdanovic, like Bartók before him, wrote brilliantly constructed and emotionally satisfying music which was both contemporary and true to the original sources.
www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/goni_10_25_05.php   (626 words)

  
 Goddesses and Priestesses Connected to Artemis (Cont.)
As a rule they were persuasive, skilled speakers, talented mathematicians, astronomers, and historians, as well as fine musicians.
The Delphic Muses were the inventors of the alphabet, and were sometimes called aspects of the Moirae or Graea.
Muse of mime and hymns, inventor of the lyre and sometimes agriculture; she was also associated with dance, geometry, and history; she played the lute
www.moonspeaker.ca /Artemis/muses.html   (1662 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Delphic Oracle: Its Early History, Influence and Fall: Books: T. Dempsey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 the atrium | golden threads | social history | ancient greek music
with a good plain (western trained) soprano rendition of the Delphic Hymns and the Seikelos inscription (not as resolutely 6/8 as it is sometimes done but it's obviously the most singable of the extant stuff, and quite lovely--I teach it to students and many of them like it too).
As far as the tunes for ancient Greek music goes, I know there is some kind of musical notation inscribed with text on a block in the Delphi museum.
The notation as I recall it is a letter notation but the letters don't necessarily have anything to do with pitch.
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