Undoubtedly the oldest specimen of ancient Creek music discovered to this day is an extract from the first stasimon of the tragedy "Orestes" by Euripides.
As was usually the case, the poet also composed the music of the tragedy which he taught around 408 B.C. The extract that has been preserved was discovered in, 1892 in a papyrus in Archduke Rainer's library and was transcribed by Carl Wessely (Mitteilungen aus der Sammlung der Papyri Erzherzog Rainer 1892).

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