Limenius
Limenius (Greek: Λιμένιος; fl. 2nd century BC) was an Athenian musician and the creator of the Second Delphic Hymn in 128 BC. He is the earliest known composer in recorded history for a surviving piece of music, or one of the two earliest, or the second-earliest, depending first on whether one accepts the proposition of Bélis (1988) that the composer of the First Delphic Hymn is named Athenaeus and, second, whether that hymn was composed in the same year as the Second Hymn, or ten years earlier. Limenius was a performer on the kithara and, as a professional musician performing in the Pythaïs (the liturgical embassy to the cult centre of Pythian Apollo at Delphi), he was required to belong to one of the guilds of the Artists of Dionysus (Anderson and Mathiesen 2001).
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ALBUMS
- Antiche musiche elleniche released: 1999
- Music of the Ancient Greeks released: 1997
- Musiques de l'antiquité grecque released: 1996
Antiche musiche elleniche
Released 1999- Ode pitica prima (versi 1-5)
- Oreste (versi 338-44)
- Stele di sicilo
- Inno delfico primo del 138 A.C.: Parte I
- Inno delfico primo del 138 A.C.: Parte II
- Inno delfico primo del 138 A.C.: Parte III
- Inno delfico secondo del 128 A.C.: Parte I
- Inno delfico secondo del 128 A.C.: Parte II
- Inno delfico secondo del 128 A.C.: Parte III
- Inno delfico secondo del 128 A.C.: Parte IV
- Inno delfico secondo del 128 A.C.: Parte V
- Inno delfico secondo del 128 A.C.: Parte VI
- Inno delfico secondo del 128 A.C.: Parte VII
- Inno delfico secondo del 128 A.C.: Parte VIII
- Invocazione alla musa
- Inno al sole (Parlato)
- Inno al sole (Cantato)
- Invocazione a calliope e ad apollo
- Invocazione a nemesi
- Inno cristiano d'ossirinco
Music of the Ancient Greeks
Released 1997- Salpinx call (5th century BC)
- Hyn to the Sun (1st century AD)
- Dramatic speech (Oslo papyrus inv 1413) (circa 100 AD)
- Song (1st century AD)
- Invocation of the Muse (2nd century AD)
- Invocation of Calliope and Apollo (1st century AD)
- Delphic paean (127 BC)
- Dramatic fragment (Oxyrhynchus papyrus 3161, fragment 1) (3rd century AD)
- Dramatic fragment (Oxyrhynchus papyrus 3161, fragment 4) (3rd century AD)
- Dramatic fragment (Vienna papyrus G 29825 ab recto) (circa 200 BC)
- Choral ode from Orestes (Vienna papyrus G 2315) (circa 408 BC)
- Choral ode from Iphigeneia at Aulis (Leiden inv. 510) (circa 404 BC)
- Piece of satyr play (Oxyrhynchus 2436) (2nd century AD)
- Instrumental piece (Berlin 6870) (2nd century AD)
- Dramatic lament on Ajax's suicide (Berlin 6870) (late 2nd century AD)
- Piece mentioning Erinyes (Oxyrhynchus 3704) (2nd century AD)
- Christian hymn (Oxyrhynchus 1786) (3rd century AD)
- Dramatic recitative (Oslo inv. 1413) (circa 100 AD)
- Instrumental exercises (2nd century AD)
- Hymn to Nemesis (1st century AD)
- Tragic dialogue on Orestes (Michigan inv. 2958) (2nd century AD)
- Instrumental piece (Berlin 6870) (2nd century AD)
- Paean (Berlin papyrus 6870) (late 2nd century AD)
- Paean and processional (127 AD)
Musiques de l'antiquité grecque
Released 1996- Fanfare d'appel aux armes
- Euripides, Oreste
- Euripide, Iphigénie à Aulis
- Hymne delphique à Apollon: Athènaios, fis d'Athènaios, péan et hyporchème
- Hymne delphique à Apollon: Limènios, fils de Thoinos, péan et prosodion
- Anonymes de Bellermann
- Eschylus (?) Ajax (?)
- Fragments instrumentaux de Contrapollinopolis
- Fragment d'Orestie
- Seikilos, chanson
- Prélude à une muse
- Prélude à Calliope et à Apollon
- Hymne au soleil
- Hymne à Némésis
- Hymne Chrétienne d'Oxyrhynchus
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Luminous
by: StratovariusLuminous, we shine
Like the stars on the evening sky
Through the universe and centuries
They are calling, hear them calling
Luminous, moonshine
Is guiding my travel through life
Through the winds of time
I hear angels calling, hear them calling
No tree has branches so foolish
As to fight among themselves
We share the same biology
We are one, we are luminous
Luminous, when we die
We return to the great ocean
Of the living energy
It is calling, hear it calling
Luminous, my life
A breath in the cosmic play
Without reason or rhyme
It is calling, hear it calling
No tree has branches so foolish
As to fight among themselves
We share the same biology
We are one, we are luminous
Luminous
Luminous