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Practising episode 2: Seikilos song & tounging

Posted on 1 March 2016 by Barnaby Brown

I’m having fun with the Seikilos song, prompted by a collaboration  with Aleksandra Szypowska. I met her last month in Mark his Words, a semi-staged dramatisation of St Mark’s Gospel in Greek, by Patrick Boyde, in which we were both performing. … Continue reading →

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The Seikilos Song on the Pompeii aulos

Posted on 30 April 2015 by Stefan Hagel

Here is the best-known ancient melody, played, for the first time since antiquity, both on a reproduction of an ancient instrument and in the original pitch (a = c. 480 Hz, so to say). The finger span on the lower pipe (Pompeii Pipe 2) … Continue reading →

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