This music is excellent! How long have you been playing? I'm really interested in Greek music and culture. Actually for my university course I'm making a small performance of the Symposium by Plato and I've been looking for some suitable music for a while now. This would be perfect. I don't suppose I would be able to use a sample? I would make sure you were given full credit and that you got to see the performance. I totally understand if not though. Well done anyway!
Hi, I this music is amazing! I'm really interested in greek music and and doing a performance soon for my course at university based around 'The Symposium' by Plato. I've been searching for some appropriate music for a while now, and yours would be perfect. Might it be possible for me to sample some of your music? I totally understand if not. Just wondering... Well done with it anyway!
I think it is, and also I think it is also the modern day Greek word for guitar as well - the Kithara (the large wooden lyre played in ancient Greece) was quite literally the guitar of the ancient world. Like the guitar, it was portable to accompany the singer/songwriter, and the tone was almost the same as a guitar, since the strings were plucked with a plectrum, and passed over a slanted bridge. The only difference, was there was no fingerboard, and the strings were made of gut/natural fibes.
I will order your CD soon. It would be cool if you could include the notes on all the songs you play in a CD...charge a bit more but it would be worth buying it. I'm an novice lyre player.
@mariababyface Actually, kithara (κιθάρα written in greek) is a greek word describing an instrument with strings. The word kitharodos (κιθαρωδός) is a common word in many texts describing a singer with a "guitar". This word passed in latin as cithara. Enough said about the linguistic matters. I loved your work! I got really lucky finding your channel! Greetings from Greece.
I wish I had the funds to buy some decent equipment! However, to hear professional studio quality recordings of my lyre music, both my albums of mysticla lyre music,"King David's Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel" & my new album, "Lyre of the Levites" are available from cdbaby. Individual tracks from my 1st album are also available to download from Aplle iTunes & Amazon MP3 Store
My friend and I ... we are goin to try to attempt to make a Lyre in woodshop... I got the basic of the necessities but in order to play ancient Greek hymns how many strings do I need... or is there a necessary number ?
I think the Kithara had 7 strings - I believe they were tuned pentatonically, and the smaller intervals between the strings were produced by shortening the length of the srings with the fingers of the left hand. I find 10 strings to be more than adequate, without the need to tune pentatonically - string stopping is really awkward on high tension modern nylon strings!
Thanks. We just started working on it a few days ago... wish us luck... im not so sure whats going to happen when we start putting strings on it... but I'll worry about that later. XD
I am in the final stages of recording my first Cd album "KING DAID'S LYRE;ECHOES OF ANCIENT ISRAEL" - hopefully I will have the master disc by Tuesday...unless the studio computer crashes again like it did last week! Although I have not got a website set up yet to distribute the finished CD, I can still process orders via Paypal - I'm selling it for £9 (plus postage)...anyone else out there interested??? If so, please contact me directly, at my Youtube mailbox. Thanks! :o)
Of course, it's more like an ACTUAL IMPROVISATION on the melody. :) I had to listen carefully for the melodic themes taken from the original recording, and even then you changed the meter from 3/4 to 2/4 (basically) and upgraded the tempo. :) Not, of course, that the Greek virtuosos wouldn't have done the same sort of thing if they felt like it. :D
I wish I could get hold of some proper sheet music of some of the surviving fragments of ancient Greek music - is there such an anthology by ML West? The trouble with attempting to learn ancient Greek music by ear as I have done so far, is that the resulting arangements inevitably stray from the actual melody! I still prefer filling in these pityfully short, fragmentary melodies with moderate improvisation, rather than having odd-sounding silences; my aim is to bring this music back to LIFE!;o)
Rather than playing the Night of the Living Dead, I presume? ;)
When these various Greek texts were published, they had to be transcribed (one way or another) into more modern musical notation. Someone told me that the extant texts were collected by someone and published somewhere. If I can track such a volume down, you'll be the first to know!
Interesting I gotta say !
insanelook 1 year ago
Epic i love everything Greek i have Greek Blood Woot!
ExplicLyrics15 1 year ago
This music is excellent! How long have you been playing? I'm really interested in Greek music and culture. Actually for my university course I'm making a small performance of the Symposium by Plato and I've been looking for some suitable music for a while now. This would be perfect. I don't suppose I would be able to use a sample? I would make sure you were given full credit and that you got to see the performance. I totally understand if not though. Well done anyway!
nickyjames1000 1 year ago
Hi, I this music is amazing! I'm really interested in greek music and and doing a performance soon for my course at university based around 'The Symposium' by Plato. I've been searching for some appropriate music for a while now, and yours would be perfect. Might it be possible for me to sample some of your music? I totally understand if not. Just wondering... Well done with it anyway!
nickyjames1000 1 year ago
Isn't Kithara the Italian word for Guitar? Lovely music. No wonder the Greeks were known for their talent and knowledge.
mariababyface 1 year ago
I think it is, and also I think it is also the modern day Greek word for guitar as well - the Kithara (the large wooden lyre played in ancient Greece) was quite literally the guitar of the ancient world. Like the guitar, it was portable to accompany the singer/songwriter, and the tone was almost the same as a guitar, since the strings were plucked with a plectrum, and passed over a slanted bridge. The only difference, was there was no fingerboard, and the strings were made of gut/natural fibes.
Klezfiddle1 1 year ago
@Klezfiddle1
I will order your CD soon. It would be cool if you could include the notes on all the songs you play in a CD...charge a bit more but it would be worth buying it. I'm an novice lyre player.
ArielMig 1 year ago
@mariababyface Actually, kithara (κιθάρα written in greek) is a greek word describing an instrument with strings. The word kitharodos (κιθαρωδός) is a common word in many texts describing a singer with a "guitar". This word passed in latin as cithara. Enough said about the linguistic matters. I loved your work! I got really lucky finding your channel! Greetings from Greece.
Phaedrusgr 8 months ago
Thank You, very beautiful!
gossamerhall 3 years ago
you should remake this video on high quolity cause this is great melody and its sounds a bit badd because of the pure quolity of sound
satyros1988 3 years ago 2
I wish I had the funds to buy some decent equipment! However, to hear professional studio quality recordings of my lyre music, both my albums of mysticla lyre music,"King David's Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel" & my new album, "Lyre of the Levites" are available from cdbaby. Individual tracks from my 1st album are also available to download from Aplle iTunes & Amazon MP3 Store
Klezfiddle1 3 years ago
Great, rhythmic tune. But the sound is too high, which ruins the quality slightly. Did you record this in Stereo?
kinzukiwi 3 years ago
Sorry about the dodgy sound quality - unfortunately, the only "recording equipment" I can afford, is my webcam and crappy PC mic! :o(
Klezfiddle1 3 years ago
beautiful
Icachowda 3 years ago
Fascinating!
jyamamo 3 years ago
*sniffle* Darn it i want one of those so bad!
guylovesme 3 years ago
My friend and I ... we are goin to try to attempt to make a Lyre in woodshop... I got the basic of the necessities but in order to play ancient Greek hymns how many strings do I need... or is there a necessary number ?
guylovesme 3 years ago
I think the Kithara had 7 strings - I believe they were tuned pentatonically, and the smaller intervals between the strings were produced by shortening the length of the srings with the fingers of the left hand. I find 10 strings to be more than adequate, without the need to tune pentatonically - string stopping is really awkward on high tension modern nylon strings!
Klezfiddle1 3 years ago
Thanks. We just started working on it a few days ago... wish us luck... im not so sure whats going to happen when we start putting strings on it... but I'll worry about that later. XD
guylovesme 3 years ago
So when do I get my CD?
racylaserjet 3 years ago
I am in the final stages of recording my first Cd album "KING DAID'S LYRE;ECHOES OF ANCIENT ISRAEL" - hopefully I will have the master disc by Tuesday...unless the studio computer crashes again like it did last week! Although I have not got a website set up yet to distribute the finished CD, I can still process orders via Paypal - I'm selling it for £9 (plus postage)...anyone else out there interested??? If so, please contact me directly, at my Youtube mailbox. Thanks! :o)
Klezfiddle1 3 years ago
A true artist~count me in on that CD!
harpruby 3 years ago
Added to my favorites! Beautiful! Can't wait till you CD comes out!
vientocita 3 years ago
Nice job, as always!
Of course, it's more like an ACTUAL IMPROVISATION on the melody. :) I had to listen carefully for the melodic themes taken from the original recording, and even then you changed the meter from 3/4 to 2/4 (basically) and upgraded the tempo. :) Not, of course, that the Greek virtuosos wouldn't have done the same sort of thing if they felt like it. :D
I look forward to your CD!
rakkav 3 years ago
I wish I could get hold of some proper sheet music of some of the surviving fragments of ancient Greek music - is there such an anthology by ML West? The trouble with attempting to learn ancient Greek music by ear as I have done so far, is that the resulting arangements inevitably stray from the actual melody! I still prefer filling in these pityfully short, fragmentary melodies with moderate improvisation, rather than having odd-sounding silences; my aim is to bring this music back to LIFE!;o)
Klezfiddle1 3 years ago
Rather than playing the Night of the Living Dead, I presume? ;)
When these various Greek texts were published, they had to be transcribed (one way or another) into more modern musical notation. Someone told me that the extant texts were collected by someone and published somewhere. If I can track such a volume down, you'll be the first to know!
rakkav 3 years ago
nice
bhatindawalla 3 years ago
That's wonderful! Thank you a thousand times!
tmafkap 3 years ago