Homer, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and Divine Comedy were all composed to be heard as works of music with instruments and a singer, to read them is to castrate the art. Imagine reading Nick Cave lyrics instead of listening to the fucking song
>>24788703thanks. I now have iron maiden's rime of the ancient mariner stuck in my head
>>24788703Read a book, anon. Don't be so fucking lazy.
>>24788703>Divine ComedyNope. Homer WAS originally a folk singer, but the later works (Aeneid, Metamorphoses, Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost) were written down and meant to be read.
>>24788731They were read aloud with music to intensify the mood. Without that it's not the same experience at all. See this: https://youtu.be/mdv3vkECqXA
>>24788713Finding a recording of faithful recitations is much more hardwork than just reading a book
>>24788745That's a play retard. I maintain that only Homer was read aloud accompanied by music. Epic poetry, starting from Virgil, was a written down and read, not sung.
>>24788769OF course it's a play, my point was how much a literary experience changes with music. For a readercel you ought to know what one is saying. Anyways see this then you dogwhore: https://www.youtube.com/live/2WcIK_8f7oQ
>>24788752Prove it
>>24788703Reading Homer is a cerebral act, but hearing it performed restores its primordial essence. These poems were never meant to be silently deciphered but resounded—sung to the rhythm of the lyre, breathed into life by the cadence of a living voice. The auditory experience animates their dactylic pulse, unveiling tonal subtleties and mnemonic repetitions that static text can only imply. When performed, the verses regain their ritual potency, their communal gravity. To read is to dissect; to listen is to inhabit. Homer’s poetry, in its truest form, belongs not to the page but to the air.
>>24788769Henry VIII's poems were read over a beat. Meaning he was technically a rapper.
>>24789035Poetry was just music for a long long time
>>24789016Please kill yourself, no one wants to waste their time reading AI
>>24788786>a literary experience changes with musicYeah, changes for the worse
>>24789225If that sounded artificial, it’s only because you’ve grown used to the diluted prose that passes for authenticity now. There’s nothing mechanical about that argument—it’s just written in a register most have forgotten how to use. The syntax breathes with intention; the diction has lineage. No algorithm can mimic the cadence of conviction or the slow burn of thought that shapes sentences like those. What you read wasn’t generated—it was composed, the way one writes when language is treated as an art rather than an output.
>>24789270Did you not enjoy the play? Every other recording I can find is obviously not the best which is why Agamemnon was my first example. That video possess a feeling unpresent in text.
>>24789088It was a middle word meaning both music and spoken words. Epics come from the word epos meaning spoken word, not musica.
>>24789270>.t tryhard esl
>>24788703There’s some German site called like homersangen that has musical reconstructions of Homer
>>24789837Link it chud
>>24788703The oldest recorded poetry set to music is the Carmina Burana. It is a collection of bawdy poems recorded in primitive 'neumes' which merely indicate the note is higher or lower than the preceding note but doesn't relegate specific pitch.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL1xSxFfh_I'Name of the celebration' - poem commemorating the fall of Jerusalem during the crusades
>>24789276You can't be serious
>>24789016Kek
https://youtu.be/8ubSwbyd0uI?si=nFZ9uHYeDelXeNw7&t=31
>>24792168https://youtu.be/8ubSwbyd0uI?t=31Fucked up the link by not cutting out the tracker
>>24788703https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KluVd9Djkw&list=PL7DFzHXvWFLi2Mmd4_MaLYp0CqJfnMik1&index=1I'm not aware of any accompanied with a lyre or cithara, but here the natural rhythms of the language come through.
>>24792176He does add the digamma, which by the time the Iliad was collected into one poem would have been gone, but unless you're a purist, this should suffice.
