RE: Evolution of Music from 1400 BC till the present day
October 19, 2019 at 8:19 pm
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2019 at 8:24 pm by 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):
Quite intense if you ask me.
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):
Quote: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.
