Talk:Delphic Hymns

message: With the undertanding that any modern performances of the ancient hymns would, obviously, be interpretations and not faithful to the original performances, does anyone have any links to modern performances and recordings? Or, even a MIDI or digital audio file of the notes played as shown in the article? --NightMonkey 01:49, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
:I could make a MIDI file of it easily, if that would help.  It's a little misleading since we have absolutely no idea how they performed this stuff, and it would sound rather "plain."  (I think the music was sung by the chorus while the kithara player improvised some kind of embellishments, but I can't put that in the article 'cuz it's just my guess.)  In the standard MIDI spec I think there's several plucked strings that would be appropriate sounds.  Antandrus  (talk) 02:19, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: FYI there is a recording available called "Ancient Greek Music" by the Atrium Musicae de Madrid, released in 1979 on Harmonia Mundi, that contains interpretations on reconstructed instruments of pretty much all the ancient Greek and Roman musical output that has survived to the present, including the first Delphic Hymn to Apollo. There's also information on a more recent CD here. --Gene_poole 02:39, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting!  I wish I had it.  I'll list it and one or two more at the end of the article.  Antandrus  (talk) 04:30, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

text: I found a recording that incorporates the theme of the first Delphic Hymn in the game Civilisation III. Here's a link to it:  If the link is included, can it be mentioned in the recording section? Watto the jazzman (talk) 02:21, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Modern performance recordings available?

message: quote: ...is the earliest unambiguous surviving example of notated music from anywhere in the western world... - and what about the Seikilos epitaph? Seikilos is not dated without doubt but it is between the 2nd and the 1st Century BC -- Hartmann Schedel (talk) 15:16, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  the earliest Music? 

message: "the Pythian Festival, held only once every ten years, "... The redlinked reference, then, is not to the Pythian Games, held every four years? --Wetman (talk) 18:30, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Pöhlmann and West (2001) say every ten years, but do not clarify how this decennial Festival relates to the Games. The ten-year interval is cited (originally by Reinach, I believe) as the reason for the possibility that the two Hymns may have been composed ten years apart, rather than in the same year.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 20:59, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Pythian Festival"

message: I don't know where I could find the original Greek text of the hymns, I mean, not a photo of the stone.--190.22.94.15 (talk) 20:43, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A careful transcription of the surviving Greek text, as well as the original letter-notation of the music, can be found in Pöhlmann and West 2001, cited in the References. There is no translation there, however.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 20:55, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Greek text 

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message: What was wrong with (– u –)? (– ⏑ –) doesn't look any better! If the breve mark was a properly sized one it would be OK, but as it is, it looks too small and too low on the page. Kanjuzi (talk) 04:30, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it took me a minute or two to figure out that "u" was meant to represent a breve mark at all, and a typewriter workaround should not be necessary in this day and age (just as we do not use double-hyphens instead of em-dashes on Wikipedia). I reckon that, if this confuses me, it is going to be worse for a reader who is not expecting macrons and breves at all. The sizing of the breve may be a product of your browser, since it looks OK to me (Safari 11.0.2, running under OS-X 11.1), though admittedly it rides a little low. There are actually two breve symbols that I am aware of (perhaps there are also Wiki templates for the purpose, which might be more satisfactory, but I have not succeeded in finding such templates for stand-alone marks). This one is the "metrical breve" from the Music Symbols category in Unicode, and the macron here is really an en-dash (I do not find a corresponding macron in the Music Symbols set). The "real" Unicode macron and breve marks are meant to be used as superscripts, and so display small and high (ˉ ˘ ˉ), which I judge to be unsatisfactory. There may be other options of which I am unaware, but the letter "u" is simply too confusing, in my opinion.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 16:45, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
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message: The midi recording of the first section (placed under the illustration) used to work immediately when clicked, but now has to be downloaded first. Can anyone solve the problem? Kanjuzi (talk) 08:19, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Midi recording