thanks
 
>>> Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> 12/01 11:09 AM >>>
Robert,
The URL cited below will lead you to some answers to your questions about notation and melody.
Tim
 
Robert Kibler wrote:
 
> 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?  Isn't classical Greek melody a matter of speculative interpretation?
>
> >>> Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> 12/01 8:36 AM >>>
> Jay,
> Searching the archives of rec.music.early for a relatively recent recording that
> might include this hymn, I found several references to a CD released in 1995 by
> Pandourion Records in Oregon, called "Music of the Ancient Greeks", by the
> ensemble De Organographia (Philip and Gayle Neuman, William Gavin).  Try this URL
> (if your email reader word-wraps, you will have to put the URL back together
> again into a single string of text).
> Tim Romano
>
> http://x7.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=102385302.3&CONTEXT=912522141.565903377&hitnum=15 
>
> Jay Anania wrote:
>
> > Where can this ancient Greek "Hymn to the Sun" be found?  Are there available
> > recordings?
> > Also, the Balkan folk music that was mentioned...any particular collection?
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Jay Anania