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thanks for clarification. Perhaps we should also add to our list of sun-songs "Cantico del Sole," attributed to St Francis, and translated by EP. In fact, meter, melody, melissamissamissimi aside, our poet EP had an affinity for the sun, didn't he?
>>> Gregory Hays <[log in to unmask]> 12/01 2:34 PM >>>
>The lyrics to a song or hymn entitled "Hymn to Helios" can be found in
>just about any version of the "Homeric Hymns." I have a copy put out by
>Johns Hopkins Press, translated by Apostolos N. Athanassakis--a name that
>suggests some familiarity with Greek. As for the music to which these
>hymns were fixed--we have the Greek modes identified, and they give the
>general character of Greek music, but who has musical notation from
>archaic or classical Greece?
The hymn to the sun ascribed to Mesomedes (floruit under Hadrian, early 2nd
c. AD is preserved with musical notation in a Byzantine MS. It has no
relation to the Homeric Hymn to Helios.
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