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The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation. [1] [2] Commonly dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD, the inscription was found engraved on a pillar from the ancient Hellenistic town of Tralles (present-day Turkey) in 1883.
Ugarit, where the Hurrian songs were found. The complete song is one of about 36 such hymns in cuneiform writing, found on fragments of clay tablets excavated in the 1950s from the Royal Palace at Ugarit (present-day Ras Shamra, Syria), [5] in a stratum dating from the fourteenth century BC, [6] but is the only one surviving in substantially complete form.
Cardiacs side project Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake recorded the song to a new melody on their self-titled album in 1984. [24] Richard Thompson's own arrangement is the earliest song on his album 1000 Years of Popular Music (2003 Beeswing Records). [25] [b] Emilia Dalby and the Sarum Voices covered the song for the album Emilia (2009 Signum ...
In the process, the song broke a number of chart records. 65 years after its release, it becomes the oldest song ever to top the Billboard Hot 100. The previous record was held by Carey’s “All ...
The oldest surviving written music is the Hurrian songs from Ugarit, Syria. Of these, the oldest is the Hymn to Nikkal (hymn no. 6; h. 6), which is somewhat complete and dated to c. 1400 BCE. [69] However, the Seikilos epitaph is the earliest entirely complete noted musical composition.
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The current co-record holders are “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X and "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by Shaboozey at 19 weeks each, and the longest record held is “One Sweet Day” by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men with 8,554 days.
Tune. Drømde mik en drøm i nat is the oldest known secular song in the Nordic countries, written around 1300.It is written in Old East Norse and is included in Codex Runicus, a transcript of Scanian Law where it forms a final note.