Echoes of Ancient Rome (2 of 2)

"Echoes of Ancient Rome" - available now, from iTunes: http://bit.ly/hSsBLN

Also just released on Amazon MP3 Store:
http://amzn.to/h8aOlX

Also available from CD Baby:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/michaellevy4

This unique album features compositions for an ancient lyre, in a selection of ancient modes, once heard in ancient Rome, some 2000 years ago!

Unlike ancient Greece, tragically, virtually no surviving written music has survived from ancient Rome. This little composition for my replica Kithara-style lyre is my attempt to evoke a tiny fraction of what was forever lost...

My Albums of Ancient Lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/michael-levy/id4324920

They are also available from Amazon MP3 Store:

http://amzn.to/eyI34H

Also, my 3 CD albums, "King David's Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel", "An Ancient Lyre" & "Lyre of the Levites" are available anywhere in the world from CD Baby:

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/MichaelLevy

For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of "Musical Adventures in Time Travel", please visit my official website:

http://www.ancientlyre.com

Many thanks for watching!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Ancient
• Rome
• Roman
• Music
• Ruins
• Colesseum
• Gladiators
• Pantheon
• Lyre
• Harp
• Centurian
• Palatine
• Hill
• Arch
• of
• Titus
• Trajan
• Pompeii
• Hadrian
• Constantine
• Julius
• Caesar
• Augustus
• Tiberius
• Caligula
• Claudius
• Vespasian
• Nero
• Domitian

[MeningoKid]

Hi, Michael:

Arik here from Los Angeles. We've spoken a few times.  I love this composition. I also enjoy the slightly quicker rhythm. I've mentioned that I tend to liek these and I think people often neglect quicker rhythms in reconstructed ancient music.

Shalom,

Arik

[Klezfiddle1]

@MeningoKid Hi Arik! Glad you like this very rough initial mix - I have JUST this minute finished uploading the final masterfully mastered tracks to CD Baby...my new EP, "Echoes of Ancient Rome" wil be availalble from CD Baby, iTunes & Amazon MP3 hopefully within the next week - keep an eye on my bulletins...

All the best for 2011!

Michael

[xglewiss]

Hello Mr Klezfiddle

Excellent renditions, your contributions to music are very impressive.

I have noticed that in your accompaniment you seem to be using only fourths and fifths in a drone like fashion, is there any evidence that the Romans might have used triads?

I myself have had a go at trying to add triadic harmonies to ancient tunes with little success.

[Klezfiddle1]

@xglewiss Glad you like these rough recordings! My new album, "Echoes of Ancient Rome" will be out on iTunes by about mid January 2011. Whether the ancients used any form of harmony, I think hamonic tonality is actually implied, in many of the surviving fragments of music from ancient Greece. Indeed, in order to actually tune a lyre, the player must be familiar with what the musical intervals actually sound like. If only we had some more surviving music from ancient Rome...

[thetruechadley666]

Very listenable music. Nice work.

[worldofurin]

i always think of stronghold when i hear this

[sistercarie]

that's beautiful!

[koreamy]

I enjoyed that very much

thank you

[vldas]

people are arguing and fighting today too