✞🎺🍃Seikilos Epitaph Remix Material
A calm, intimate instrumental arrangement of Seikilos Epitaph, performed as a duet for classical guitar and trumpet. The guitar plays in a refined, lyrical, Midori-style classical approach — warm tone, expressive phrasing, subtle rubato. The trumpet enters gently, singing the ancient melody with a soft, human breath, never overpowering the guitar. The mood is reflective, timeless, and quietly emotional — like music echoing across centuries. No modern effects, no heavy rhythm section, no percussion. Pure acoustic space, natural reverb, slow tempo, expressive dynamics. Inspired by ancient Greek modal harmony, performed with modern sensitivity. Minimalist, elegant, and deeply human.
✞🎺🍃Seikilos Epitaph Remix Material
A calm, intimate instrumental arrangement of Seikilos Epitaph, performed as a duet for classical guitar and trumpet. The guitar plays in a refined, lyrical, Midori-style classical approach — warm tone, expressive phrasing, subtle rubato. The trumpet enters gently, singing the ancient melody with a soft, human breath, never overpowering the guitar. The mood is reflective, timeless, and quietly emotional — like music echoing across centuries. No modern effects, no heavy rhythm section, no percussion. Pure acoustic space, natural reverb, slow tempo, expressive dynamics. Inspired by ancient Greek modal harmony, performed with modern sensitivity. Minimalist, elegant, and deeply human.
Lyrics
Trumpet: Medaman
Arrangement: 39thetk924 (Leaf)
The Seikilos Epitaph is considered the oldest surviving complete piece of music, dating back to the 1st century AD. Carved in stone in ancient Greece, its melody and words have traveled across two thousand years to reach us today. Simple, human, and deeply timeless, it reminds us to cherish life while it lasts.
This work is an instrumental piece, but the original composition,
the Seikilos Epitaph, contains the following lyrics:
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While you live, shine.
Do not let yourself be weighed down by sorrow.
Life lasts only a short while;
time eventually claims all things.
セイキロスの墓碑銘は、紀元1世紀にさかのぼる、
現存する最古の完全な楽曲とされています。
古代ギリシャの石碑に刻まれたその旋律と言葉は、
二千年の時を越えて、今も私たちのもとに届いています。
素朴で人間的、そして時代を超えて響くそのメッセージは、
生きている今この瞬間を大切にすることを静かに語りかけます。
本作品はインストゥルメンタルですが、
原曲「セイキロスの墓碑銘」には以下の歌詞が記されています。
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生きているあいだは 輝きなさい
決して 悲しみに沈んではいけない
人生はほんのひととき
時が過ぎれば すべては終わるのだから