version 1 (transposed, default) ||  version 2 (transposed, slower tempo)  ||  version 3 (not transposed)  || version 4 (surviving notes only) ||  why the different versions

In the publication, the music is transcribed according to long-established, conventional equivalents for the ancient notation (version 3). Musicologists, however, agree that the conventional equivalents are too high by about a minor third: thus the"transposed" version is as close as we can get to the original melody. The tempo is guesswork: thus I include both a faster (version 1) and slower (version 2) "transposed" rendition. For line 4, we have "restored" notes (by guesswork) in versions 1-3, so as to give an idea of the rhythm; version 4 plays surviving notes only, with rests where the note itself is unknown. See the publication for details.

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