Since these sheets were in type the materials for the study of ancient Greek music have received a notable accession. The French archaeologists who are now excavating on the site of Delphi have found several important fragments of lyrical poetry, some of them with the music noted over the words, as in the examples already known. The two largest of these fragments have been shown to belong to a single inscription, containing a hymn to Apollo, which dates in all probability from the early part of the third century B.C. Of the other fragments the most considerable is plausibly referred to the first century B.C. These inscriptions have been published in the _Bulletin de correspondance hellénique_ (viii-xii. pp. 569-610), with two valuable commentaries by M. Henri Weil and M. Théodore Reinach. The former scholar deals with the text, the latter chiefly with the music. The music of the hymn to Apollo is written in the vocal notation. The metre is the cretic or paeonic ([Symbols:]), and the key, as M. Reinach has shown, is the Phrygian--the scale of C minor, with the conjunct tetrachord _c--d[Symbol: flat]--d--f_. In the following transcription I have followed M. Reinach except in a few minor points. When two notes are sung to the same syllable the vowel or diphthong is repeated, as in the fragment of the Orestes (p. 132): but I have thought it best to adhere to the modern method. [Music: A [Symbols: o r 4] [Greek: [Ton kithari]sei kly-ton pai-da me-ga-lou [Dios a-]] [Symbols: oruh.u4r] [Greek: eidete pa]r' a-kro-ni-phê ton-de pa-gon, am[broth' hos]]] [Music: [Symbols: #1? ZS A rty r M Y M] [Greek: pa-si thna-tois pro-phai-neis [logia, tr]i-po-da man-] [Symbols: 1M I O r O 4ruh.0] [Greek: tei-on hôs hei[les, echthros hon e-phr]ou-rei dra-kôn;] [Symbols: 4:I U!or 4 u] [Greek: ho-te te[oisi belesin e-tr]ê-sas ai-o-lon he-lik-tan[] [Symbols: I omio r 4] [Greek:] sy-rig-math' hi-eis a-thô-pe[ut' eba;] [Symbols: U ior.t. U] [Greek: nyn] de Ga-la-tan a-rês..n epe-ras' a-sep-t[os [Symbols:] [Greek: sal-li-ô](?) [Greek: gen-nan..n thalos phi-lon] [Symbols:] [Greek: da-moi-o lo....rôn e-phor..] [Symbols:] [Greek: te-on k.. e-nai k..]] (about 12 bars wanting.)] [Music: B [Symbols: I M G M Th I M] [Greek: Helik]ôna ba-thy-den-dron hai la[chete Dios eri]bro-mou] [Symbols: I M U M Th Th I M I] [Greek: thy-ga-tres eu-ô-le[noi] mo-le[te] syn-o-mai-mon hi-na] [Symbols: M U M U M W Th G W] [Greek: Phoi-bon ô-dai-si mel-psê-te chry-se-o-ko-man;] [Symbols: Th Ô Ps Ô Th Ô Th I M Th] [Greek: hos a-na di-ko-ry-ni-a Par-nas-si-dos tas-de pet-] [Symbols: I M U M U M I Th I Th G Ô Ps G] [Greek:-ras he-dra-na [me]ta kly-tais Del-phi-sin Kas-ta-li-dos] [Symbols: Ô Ps Ô Th G L M] [Greek: eu-u-drou na-mat' e-pi-ni-se-tai, Del-phon a-na] [Symbols: G M I Th I M Ph G] [Greek: [pr]ô-na man-tei-on e-phe-pôn pa-gon. [ithi] klyta]] [Music: [Symbols:] [Greek: me-ga-lo-po-lis Ath-this, eu-chai-si phe-ro-ploi-o nai-]