[38] It seems needless to set out these melodies here. The first satisfactory edition of them is that of Bellermann, Die Hymnen des Dionysius und Mesomedes (Berlin, 1840). They are given by Westphal in his Musik des griechischen Alterthumes (1883), and by Gevaert, Musique de l'Antiquité, vol. i. pp. 445 ff.; also in Mr. W. Chappell's History of Music (London, 1874), where the melodies of the first and third hymns will be found harmonised by the late Sir George Macfarren.
The melody published by Kircher (Musurgia, i. p. 541) as a fragment of the first Pythian ode of Pindar has no attestation, and is generally regarded as a forgery.
[39] Of the discovery made at Delphi, after most of this book was in type, I hope to say something in the Appendix.
[40] Harm. p. 18 Meib. legetai gar dê kai logôdes ti melos, to synkeimenon ek tôn prosôdiôn, to en tois onomasi; physikon gar to epiteinein kai anienai en tô dialegesthai.
[41] I need not repeat what is said by Dr. Wessely and M. Ruelle in defence of the genuineness of our fragment. They justly point to the remarkable coincidence that the music of this very play is quoted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus (l. c.). It would almost seem as if it was the only well-known specimen of music of the classical period of tragedy.
The transcription of Dr. Crusius, with his conjectural restorations, will be found in the Appendix. I have only introduced one of his corrections here, viz. the note on the second syllable of kateklysen.
[42] Dr. Crusius, however, detects a Φ; (the sign for g) over the first syllable of kateklusen and the second syllable of pontou. There is little trace of them in his facsimile.
[43] This argument is used, along with some others not so cogent, in Mr. W. Chappell's History of Music (p. 130).
[44] Ps. Eucl. Introd. p. 20 Meib. kata systêma de hotan ek synaphês eis diazeuxin ê anapalin metabolê ginêtai. Anonym. § 65 systêmatikai de (sc. metabolai) hopotan ek diazeuxeôs eis synaphên ê empalin metelthê to melos.
[45] As represented primarily by the analysis of Helmholtz, Die Tonempfindungen, p. 467, ed. 1863.