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Fig. 10.1.
The paeans of Athenaeus and Limenius: scales and modulations |
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15 Song of Seikilos
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(While you're alive, shine, man, | don't be the least bit blue. | Life's for a little span; | Time demands its due.) |
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A simple ditty in four clearly distinct lines, each of two iambic measures (variously realized, cf. p. 138). The melody is diatonic, in the G mode (cf. p. 186). It moves wholly within the limits of the fifth above the tonic and the tone below, until on the final syllable it descends in a traditional-sounding pentatonic cadence to the fourth below the tonic (cf. p. 194). It accords with the word-accents except at the beginning, where the rising fifth from the tonic g was evidently a conventional incipit (p. 193). |
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