Michael Atherton & Melismos #2

[ElricMeln1]

I wish we had more of this beautiful ancient greek music..

[paolocristiano]

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[wellwellwellhello]

imagine this music being played at DIon at Mount Olympus. Wow!!! THAT WOULD BE SO EXCITING!!!

[windmaker21]

I agree 100% on that.

[oldturkeybuzzard]

me gusta!! que bellos que son los melismos!! siempre me fascino la historia del mundo antiguo, grecia, egipto, israel mesopotamia. esto es un gren regalo. pq estas canciones, quiza, se escucharon tbn por aquella epoca

[654321654321]

great!

is very interesting to listen to this performances of ancient music.

thanks for sharing this videos.

[GraigRussell]

Man, what that guy does at the end with the frame drum is awesome. Got to get me one of them some day...

[Klezfiddle1]

If ONLY some of the Bodhran "players" I have had to endure at countless, dismal traditional Irish Music pub sessions which I have played at over the years, could play like HIM!!!!;o)

[SCWguqin]

The majority of authorities I've consulted (which includes talking to) agree that, at least for pre-Hellenistic kitharizein, the right-hand action should be understood as strumming rather than plucking. Obviously this gives a very different sonic ideal than the common plucked string ideal "we" all seem to have inherited in our preference for precise individual string activations.

[Klezfiddle1]

I have recently experimented in this "block and strum" lyre technique which you describe, in some of my more recent uploads on my own Youtube Channel - I find it great for improvisatory passages, & to mix with other styles, such as playing the tune with plectrum in the right hand (creating guitar tones), whilst plucking basic chords in the left (creating harp-like tones)

[rakkav]

The same is generally held true for the kithara's Semitic counterpart, the kinnor: left hand for stopping, right hand for strumming/picking. OTOH, young David also "played (the kinnor) with the hand" instrumentally.

[rakkav]

OTOH again, a melody having this tonal hierarchy seems to demand something much more precise and nuanced than just "blocked and strummed" chords. I assume Melismos uses the style it does for some very good reasons.

[Klezfiddle1]

Really fascintating to see the interplay of the plectrum & left hand finger picking on the Kithara!In my own little home-spun experiments in playing the very similar Kinnor lyre,the most "adventurous" thing I have so far tried,was using a plectrum in the right hand for tremelo,whilst playing melody with the left hand.What tuning is used on your fabulous lyre?Are the srings nylon or authentic gut?

[teamim]

For what it's worth, it sounds like gut or some natural fiber. Nylon doesn't sound like this no matter what it's attached to -- or so I've observed to date.

[rakkav]

Very, very cool! It is good to see and hear a performance that balances what little the sources tell us with measured improvisation and does it in an artistic way.

[Klezfiddle1]

Truly fabulous!

[moforex]

hooray!!! i just went to artscape in baltimore and some old people were playing "ancient greek songs" which really were bad country folk songs with words borrowed from ancient greek poems. It was atrocious; this is hooray!

[Hoplitikon]

5 stars well done!!!