For years and years, Gyda Valtysdóttir has been one of the minds behind the legendary Icelandic post-rock group múm. She finally released a solo album last year, but it was only available in limited ...

The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest known complete composition of music in existence, a Hellenistic Ionic song with complete notation likely inscribed in the first century AD. And its notation have ...

I like to think that, of all the ways to express one’s unique brand of nerdery, we music geeks are an extra special breed. Whether you’re a rabid record collector or a burgeoning singer/songwriter or ...

Hear the ‘Seikilos Epitaph’; written in Ancient Greece, it is the oldest surviving musical composition. Written in the 1st or 2nd century CE, the Song of Seikilos was discovered on a tombstone in ...

It also happens to be the world's oldest known complete song - and it has been brought back to life for you to hear today,. The piece of music - which some say sounds startlingly like Canadian rocker ...

Although the Seikilos Epitaph, dating from the first century A.D., is the oldest surviving full song with musical notation and text, and we know its author, Seikilos, there are some older compositions ...