Over 40 melodies, most of them fragmented, have survived as stone inscriptions or musical papyri (scraps of papyrus, the ancient equivalent of paper) containing musical notation. While it is certainly true that the hearings are lost recent research has satisfactorily deciphered Ancient Greek Music AGM notation and rhythm.

In AGM scripts, above each line of Greek is notation that looks mostly like Greek letters, but is in fact vocal musical notation. Interestingly, as it has been mentioned before, ancient musicians had two completely separate systems of musical notation, the one meant for voice, and the other for instruments