How To Play The Music Of Ancient Greece (4 of 4)

[konta246]

Just awesome! Thanks for uploading the vid!

[michaeljking]

I love your new website!! some very interesting sounding music, Its great to have some historical period music to draw from, That's the problem with the Anglo Saxon lyre music, we have the tuning, some references to performances in the literature but the elusive music itself......

[Klezfiddle1]

Glad you like my new website - please spread the word! Was the Anglo Saxon lyre tuned GABCDE? What sources are there about this lost music? It is amazing how many little gems of ancient Greek music have survived, and are continuing to be discovered. In contrast, it is so strange, that virtually no remnants of the lost musical legacy of the ancient Roman Empire have been so far been found...

[michaeljking]

Hucbold 10th century, late for the 6 string Lyre, that was a C diatonic. we tuned the smaller Cologne lyres to this tuning, the longer ones to G or A diatonic. Many Lyre players in the US use the pentatonic tuning. The Romans adopted Greek culture, I wonder if the lack of roman literature is due to the fact that they used greek music? I would love to see some real greek or roman lyres, The only archaeology I have seen was a bone/ivory string holder/tie block(somewhere in the UK)