Evolution of Music from 1400 BC till the present day

[GrandizerII]

Song of Seikilos:





Another nice tune in Greek (this one from around the first century AD).

For more details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph

If you are aware of the historical context behind the song and read the English translation of the lyrics, it's a sad song but still beautiful to listen to.

[GrandizerII]

More nice tunes (this time from ancient Israel). More like brief excerpts rather than one defined piece of music, it seems.

[GrandizerII]

Mesomedes - Hymn to Nemesis:





Just more ancient Greek music (from around second century AD). Instrument being used is a bit grating, but I still like the music overall.

For more details on Mesomedes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesomedes

I don't see much information regarding this hymn for Nemesis on the Wiki page, but according to the top comment on the YouTube clip, the English translation of the lyrics for this hymn is as follows (though the music in the clip didn't have any words uttered):

Nemesis, winged tilter of scales and lives,
Justice-spawned Goddess with steel-blue eyes!
You bridle vain men who roil in vain
Against Your adamantine rein.
Great hater of hubris and megalomania,
Obliterator of black resentment,
By Your trackless, churning, wracking wheel
Man's glinting fortunes turn on earth.
You come in oblivion's cloak to bend
The grandeur-deluded rebel neck,
With forearm measuring out lifetimes,
With brow frowning into the heart of man
And the yoke raised sovereign in Your hand.
Hail in the highest, O justice-queen

Nemesis, winged tilter of scales and lives,
Immortal Judge! I sing Your song,
Almighty Triumph on proud-spread wings,
Lieutenant of fairness, Requiter of wrongs.
Despise the lordly with all Your art
And lay them low in the Netherdark.

Quite intense if you ask me.

[GrandizerII]

Oxyrhynchus hymn:





A third century Christian hymn. It has that Orthodox style to it, which I quite like.

More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus_hymn

[GrandizerII]

Music that makes me want to dance medieval style:





Track listing of the album Portals of Grace (which contains this song):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portals_of_Grace

[Rev. Rye]

And it looks like the time is right for the first proper supplemental post in the series:





I got interested in her music when I was in high school, particularly after reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, which includes a chapter on her visions, which he concludes are, bizarrely enough, migraines.

So, I got some of her albums from the library, and this track from Canticles of Ecstasy in particular, reminds me of this:





Or it might have been one of the other tracks, one of the longer ones.

[GrandizerII]

That's some very impressive woman, this Hildegard of Bingen:

Hildegard of Bingen OSB (German: Hildegard von Bingen; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most-recorded in modern history. She has been considered by many in Europe to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.

Interesting info on her music:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen#Music

[GrandizerII]

Salve Regina (Gregorian Chant):





This is the first clip on the list that I'm meh about, but it has historical value, so feel free to give it a listen.

More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salve_Regina

Basically a Marian hymn.

[arewethereyet]

Salve Regina (Gregorian Chant):





This is the first clip on the list that I'm meh about, but it has historical value, so feel free to give it a listen.

More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salve_Regina

Basically a Marian hymn.

Growing up Catholic back in the days of the Latin mass didn't endear this type of music to me.  It always struck me as the soundtrack to great sadness.  

This is an interesting thread btw.  Thank you.

[GrandizerII]

Some more Catholic music for anyone into it. This time, Dies Irae (once again, Gregorian Chant):





Dies Irae is Latin for "the Day of Wrath".

More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_irae