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The seals appearing below may be displayed only on web pages belonging to the recipients of Honorary Awards conferred by the Delian Society. Designed by Joseph Dillon Ford on 20 April 2004, the central medallion contains the head of Apollo and is based on an original photograph of a marble statue of the god now displayed at the Louvre. The lyre and laurel wreath, both symbols closely associated with the Delian god of music, are shown below, while the interlaced initials of the Society appear above. The Greek letter "delta" within the laurel wreath is emblematic not only of "Delos," the island on which Apollo was born, but also of the essential triadic structure on which tonal music is based. The cult of Apollo effectively ceased to exist in ancient times, and Christianity ultimately became the dominant religion in the Western world. But the image of Apollo remains one of the most important and powerful symbols in the history of tonal music. He is personified in Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), Mozart's Apollo and Hyancinthus (1767), Igor Stravinsky's Apollon musagètes, (1928) and Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice (1973).
Members, please add links to the Delian Society home page on your web pages, placing the seal of your choice above or below the link. The URL of the Delian Society Home Page is shown below:
If you have any difficulty downloading any of the JPEG images shown, please contact me (link below) and I will e-mail you the image as an attachment. Thanks for helping to spread the word about new tonal music!
The Delian SocietyTM and its official seals are trademarks of the Delian Society.
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The views expressed in this document, elsewhere on the Delian Society web pages, and by individual members of the Delian Society are not necessarily those of the Delian Society as a whole. Our membership is extremely diverse, as is to be expected of a body that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, handicap, religion, national origin, political affiliation, or marital status.
