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	Dr. J's On-Line Survey of Audio-Visual Resources for Classics: Greek Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mesomedes: Invocation of Calliope and Apollo (1st c.
		Hymn To The Muse By Mesomedes Of Crete, 16.
		Mesomedes Of Crete: Prld To A Muse; 12.
	www.lilt.ilstu.edu /drjclassics2/Files/greekmusic.shtm (680 words)

	An Ancient Greek Hymn to the Muse
		Most of the examples complete enough for performance were composed in the Graeco-Roman period by Mesomedes, the court musician for Hadrian (reigned 117-138 CE).
		He was born in Crete and a freedman of Hadrian; he composed lyrics and epigrams for Hadrian and the Antonines.
		The following "Hymn to the Muse" by Mesomedes is in the Lydian mode (soft or round Lydian, since the B is flatted), which was the most popular mode at that time.
	www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/BA/HM.html (338 words)

	ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Galilei’s use of the Mesomedes compositions in this argument was based in part, however, on the assumption that they were originally performed by a single voice to the accompaniment of the lyre, a view which, despite poor evidence to support it, has remained current until very recently.
		This lecture will argue that the Mesomedes hymns were first sung by a large group of equal voices in unison.
		Galilei and his contemporaries were aware of the existence of unison choral song in antiquity, but their rediscovery of Mesomedes led them away from choral singing, toward the invention of new, largely monodic genres such as musical drama.
	www.iicvan-ca.org /iicvan/events/creese.htm (299 words)

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		- Hymn to the Muse by Mesomedes of Crete
		- Hymn to Nemesis by Mesomedes of Crete
		- Hymn to the Sun by Mesomedes of Crete
	phantis.greekshops.com /detail.aspx?ProdID=FM653 (42 words)

	MESOMEDES - LoveToKnow Article on MESOMEDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		See J. Bellermann, Die Hymnen des Dionysius und Mesomedes 1840); C. de Jan, Musici scriptores graeci (1899); S. Reinach in ievue des etudes grecques, ix.
		MESONERO ROMANOS, RAM6N DE (1803-1882), Spanish irose-writer, was born at Madrid on the igth of July 1803, and at an early age became interested in the history and topography)f his native city.
		To properly cite this MESOMEDES article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MESOMEDES.htm (217 words)

	Calling The Muse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mesomedes of Crete, a Greek lyric poet, lived during the 2nd century.
		He was a freedman and court musician to the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-138 CE).
		Unfortunately for those of us who research ancient music, very little of the ancient Greek written music survives and most of the oldest surviving examples date to the third century BC, and they are, for the most part, only fragments.
	www.dfw.net /~amaranth/Muse.htm (384 words)

	Doric Hymns of Mesomedes Arranged for Piano Solo: I. To the Music; II. To the Sun With Introduction By Helen Rudolph ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Doric Hymns of Mesomedes Arranged for Piano Solo: I. To the Music; II.
		To the Sun With Introduction By Helen Rudolph (Mrs.
		Title: Doric Hymns of Mesomedes Arranged for Piano Solo: I. To the Music; II.
	www.kennedyswest.com /si/002098.html (104 words)

	What Is Done by the Two in Darkness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The central rites of Eleusis were held secret then and ever since, the silence enforced with laws that doomed to death anyone who revealed the sacred knowledge.
		Our direct knowledge of the Eleusinian Mysteries thus comes from a mere handful of quotes, mostly from Christian sources bent on defamation; only Mesomedes, who sought to discuss Isis's rituals in terms of those of the Two Goddesses', could be considered friendly to Eleusis.
		Mesomedes lists as elements of the mysteries the "marriage underground," "the birth of plants," "the desires of Aphrodite, the birth of the little child, the perfect, unspeakable fire" (Walter Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults, p.
	www.widdershins.org /vol5iss4/06.htm (7239 words)

	Dr. J's On-Line Survey of Audio-Visual Resources for Classics: Greek Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hymn to Nemesis By Mesemedes Of Crete, 18.
		Hymn To Nemesis By Mesemedes Of Crete, 20.
		Mesomedes Of Crete: Prld To Calliope And Apollo; 13.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /drjclassics2/Files/greekmusic.shtm (680 words)

	Bechir Kenzari: Hadrian's Pumpkin
		A strange movement imposed itself upon my mind: I was swinging back and forth between Egypt and Rome, water lilies and pumpkins, Antinous and Apollodorus, death and life.
		Mesomedes and Apollodorus came to my help and thrust their arms wildly around me to support my frame.
		Upon recovering I ordered Mesomedes to leave, under the pretext that I had enough of his music.
	www.thepander.co.nz /literature/werks/bkenzari200401_2.php?printer_friendly=false (2738 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.04.09
		The change is both exciting and food for thought -- but more of that later.
		The collection opens with six Anacreontic poems and closes with three fables of Babrius -- perhaps the most immediately accessible and attractive material here, and wisely placed -- and also includes a brief Orphic hymn, an excerpt from the astrological poem attributed to Manetho, and a short piece by the Hadrianic lyricist Mesomedes.
		The bulk of the material presented belongs, appropriately, to the genres of epic and epyllion.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1995/95.04.09.html (1046 words)

	The Citharoedic Hymn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It was found inscribed in the doorway of the temple of Apollo.
		Other hymns of Mesomedes survive with musical notation (some of which are given below), and it is known that he continued in the Museion in Alexandria after Hadrian's death, where the Historia Augusta reports that during Antoninus Pius' reign, his state salary was reduced.
		The existence of such hymnody and the circumstances under which it was composed adds an important dimension to our picture of the cult of Antinous, as well as giving us interesting details and further myths to which he was connected.
	www.liminalityland.com /citharode.htm (342 words)

	Ancient Greek Worship Music
		Mesomedes?: Two invocations [DAM, 1s / AGM, 16s] (2C CE) [RealPlayer / midi] MS transmission
		Mesomedes: Hymn to Helios [DAM 4 / AGM, 18] (2C CE) [RealPlayer / midi] MS transmission
		Mesomedes: Hymn to Nemesis [DAM, 5 / AGM 19] (2C CE) [RealPlayer / midi] MS transmission
	courseweb.stthomas.edu /jmjoncas/LiturgicalStudiesInternetLinks/GreekNonChristianWorship/GreekWorshipMusic/GWorMusic.htm (517 words)

	DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Most of the extant ancient Greek music known at this time is recorded on copies of period instruments including voices, lyra, kithara, aulos parthenios, aulos paidikos, aulos teleios, syrinx, syrinx monokalamos, photinx, pandoura, trichordon, salpinx, psithyra, seistron, echeia, kymbala, and tympanon, which were built by the performers after extant instruments and period iconography.
		2ndc AD Invocation of Calliope and Apollo, Mesomedes, 1stc AD Delphic paean, Athenaeus, 127 BC Dramatic fragment, Anon.
		Hymn to Nemesis, Mesomedes, 1stc AD Tragic dialogue on Orestes, Anon.
	didaskalia.open.ac.uk /issues/vol2no2/Conf.html (1025 words)

	Performance of The Birth of Apollo
		Score for the initial verses of the hymn (1-9) by Mari Murdvee
		The songs (in the order of musical fragments performed): Mesomedes.
		Athenian Stranger: I am glad to hear that you agree with me; for, indeed, the discipline of pleasure and pain which, when rightly ordered, is a principle of education, has been often relaxed and corrupted in human life.
	www.ut.ee /festival/apollon2.html (385 words)

	[2001: September] Texts of Mesomedes the Citharode
		Next in thread: James Butrica: "Re: Texts of Mesomedes the Citharode"
		Reply: James Butrica: "Re: Texts of Mesomedes the Citharode"
		In reading Elaine Fantham's "Roman Literary Culture", she states that some of Mesomedes the Citharode's texts, including a proemia to Calliope, and hymns to the Sun and Nemesis are preserved with musical notation.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/CLA-L/2001/09/0203.php (174 words)

	Layne Redmond--Invoking the Muse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		About 6 or 7 years ago while researching ancient Greek music I found information about the Hymn to the Muse, written by Mesomedes of Crete in the second century a.d.
		It was musically notated in the ancient world and the words have been preserved.
		An ancient Greek hymn to the Muse Kalliopeia, She of the Beautiful Voice, written by Mesomedes of Crete, c.
	www.layneredmond.com /muse (3447 words)

	ZZCD 9813 Sun Moon and Stars
		It’s put together by two close friends who on a number of occasions have had the chance to work together in Europe.
		The oldest piece is from Crete, written by Mesomedes around 130 AD.
		Originally written on papyrus it can be found in a well known anthology.
	www.zahzah.com /catalog/zcd9813z.htm (728 words)

	MaximumEdge.com Marketplace - Classical Music - Mesomedes
		by: Jan Garbarek, Scottish Anonymous, Athenaeus, William Billings, Antoine Brumel, Guillaume Dufay, Jan Garbarek, Hildegard of Bingen, Mesomedes, Guillaume le Rouge
		by: Anonymous, Athenaeus, Euripides, Limenius, Mesomedes, Research Composer, fils de Euterpe Seikilos, Philip Neuman
		by: Michel Scherb, Emile Kaçmann, Anonymous, Greek Anonymous, Euripides, Mesomedes, Gregorio Paniagua, Jewish Traditional, Atrium Musicae de Madrid, Martine Geliot
	www.maximumedge.com /marketplace/mode-classical-search-ArtistSearch-string-Mesomedes.htm (55 words)

	Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There is a brief general introduction, and in addition each section of detailed commentary is prefaced by a discussion of literary aspects of the poems and of their wider contexts.
		Pagan poetry in the Imperial period; The Anthology: Anacreontea; Mesomedes; Epigrams, Quintus Smyrnaeus; Nonnus; Musaeus; Oppian; [Oppian], [Manetho], [Orpheus], Babrius; The Commentary; Indexes.
		"It will be a relief for both teachers and students who want to venture beyond Homer and Euripides that there is this handy, chrming edition, which gives...a highly interesting selection from Anacreontea, Mesomedes, epigrams, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Nonnus, Musaeus, (pseudo-)Oppian, pseudo-Manetho, Orphic hymns, and Babrius.
	www.cambridge.org /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521411556 (369 words)

	A Thorny Path — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers eBook by BookRags
		On his entering, she drew back hastily; but he cried to her brightly: “Do not disturb yourself.
		I am having a statue erected to Mesomedes, the great zithern-player—you perhaps know his songs.
		This evening, when the feast and the press of work are over, I will hear how you play.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/5536/24.html (489 words)

	Hymn, concord hymn, hymn jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		You are most likely getting thispage because I changed the name of a midi file.
		The following "Hymn to the Muse" by Mesomedes is in the Lydian mode (soft...The hymn is addressed to Calliopeia, often considered the Muse of epic poetry.
		A Hymn for Resisters Pull quote by Daniel Berrigan.
	www.netpageants.com /hymn.html (976 words)

	Ad Songs
		Hyn to the Sun, Mesomedes (1st c AD)
		Invocation of Calliope and Apollo, Mesomedes (1st c AD)
		Invocation of the Muse, Anonymous (2nd c AD)
	www.brainymusic.com /songlink/a/ad.html (361 words)

	The Circle of Hadrian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thus, with his Greek literary tastes, it is not surprising that he attracted a great many literary figures to his court, most of them writing in Greek.
		Among those of his court who will be familiar from elsewhere on this site are Arrian, Mesomedes, Numenios, Pancrates (all of whom wrote about Antinous), Julia Balbilla, and Favorinus of Arles.
		At least three other figures whose works have survived are important to consider as well: Phlegon of Tralles, Polemo of Smyrna, and Favorinus of Arles.
	www.liminalityland.com /phlegonpolemo.htm (6815 words)

	"The Invention of Glass" By Mesomedes (Second Century A.D.) Translated from the Greek by Sherod Santos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		"The Invention of Glass" By Mesomedes (Second Century A.D.)
		Posted Tuesday, June 15, 2004, at 8:14 AM PT
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	slate.msn.com /id/2101546/fr/rss (210 words)

	Music of Greek Antiquity
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		First Delphic Hymn to Apollo {P} Mesomedes of Crete
		Mesomedes (Hymn to the sun) - Seikilos (Epitaph) - Jewish Chant
	www.medieval.org /emfaq/cds/fmr653.htm (366 words)

	Sacred Music of Greek Antiquity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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		The Elysium in Hades {Q} Mesomedes of Crete
	www.medieval.org /emfaq/cds/fmr607.htm (181 words)

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		De Organographia - Hymn to Nemesis, Mesomedes 100ad (1:34)
		Echo And The Bunnymen - Bedbugs And Ballyhoo (3:28)
		De Organographia - Hymn to the Sun, Mesomedes 100ad (2:44)
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