MY CD IS OUT NOW! My album of mystical, ancient lyre music is available from: http://cdbaby.com/cd/mlevy This is a short rendition of one of the precious few fragments of surviving ancient Greek music! This haunting, almost dream-like fragment of melody was preverved in ancient Byzantine manuscripts(Conspectus codicum: V. Venetus Marcianus appl. cl. VI, saec. XIII-XIV N. Neapolitanus graecus III. C4, saec. XV F. Florentius Ricc. 41, saec. XVI), in the unambiguous alphabetical musical notation used in ancient Greece, & the melodic fragment is catalogued as "Anonymous, Bellermann 97-104". It is played here, on a lyre closely resembling the ancient Greek Kithara; the larger wooden lyre favoured by the professional musicians of ancient Greece(the lyre is in fact, a replica of a Jewish Temple lyre, depicted on a Jewish coin from 135CE - it is almost identical to the Kithara). I heard this lovely melody for the first time, on the CD "Musique de la Grece Antique"(track 13). It is in the ancient Greek "Hypolydian" mode; the equivalent intervals as heard on the scale from F-F on the white notes of the piano. The augmented 4th in this mode to me, creates the dreamy quality of the sound of this piece. Due to a misinterpretation of the Latin texts of Boethius, mediaeval modes were given the wrong Greek names! For the CORRECT names of the ORIGINAL ancient Greek modes, see: http://www.harmonics.com/lucy/... For what Plato & Aristotle themselves had this to say about these ancient musical modes, please see this fascinating link: http://www.pathguy.com/modes.h... What a terrible tragedy, that of all the amazing cultures of ancient civilizations, so few fragments of their original melodies and music from antiquity have been preserved... For all updates on the progress of my first CD album, "KING DAVID'S LYRE; ECHOES OF ANCIENT ISRAEL", please visit my Myspace website : http://www.myspace.com/jubalsl...

MUSIC FROM ANTIQUITY - ANCIENT GREEK MELODY! Canal: Music
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Autor: Klezfiddle1

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