Ancient Greek Music - Fragment by Homer!

This video features my arrangement for solo lyre, of a fragment of surviving ancient Greek music, which can POSSIBLY be attributed to Homer; the almost legendary ancient Greek Poet himself, writer of the 2700 year old Epic Poems, "The Illiad" and "The Odyssey"!

I heard this captivating fragment of ancient Greek music on the recording "Musique de la Grece Antique"(which is available from Amazon).

As this fragment of ancient Greek music is so pitifully short, I have tried to arrange a more musically interesting performance of it, by finishing wih a little improvisation on the lyre - demonstrating an interesting lyre-playing technique almost certainly used in antiquity called "string-blocking". This technique entails blocking with the left hand, only the strings which are not required in the melody - this enables rhythm & basic chords to be strummed with a plectrum in the right hand...

All of my 9 albums of mystical, ancient lyre music are now available from iTunes...

1)"An Ancient Lyre": http://bit.ly/dhCozi

2)"King David's Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel":
http://bit.ly/9PCIua




3)"The Ancient Biblical Lyre": http://bit.ly/9hTDje

4)"Lyre of the Levites": http://bit.ly/9baWuM

5)"Apollo's Lyre": http://bit.ly/dhCozi

6)"Ancient Times -- Music of The Ancient World": http://bit.ly/aRF5PD

7)"The Ancient Greek Modes": http://bit.ly/cZks0o

8)"The Ancient Greek Lyre": http://bit.ly/bxO7Ra

9)"Ancient Visions -- New Compositions for an Ancient Lyre": http://bit.ly/dCPmRN

Physical CDs are also available anywhere in the world from CD Baby, for 3 of my best selling albums:

"An Ancient Lyre": http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mlevy4

"King David's Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel":
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mlevy

"Lyre of the Levites": http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mlevy2

For full details about my albums of lyre music, and the fascinating ancient historical background, please visit my official website:

http://www.ancientlyre.com

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[extrememark13]

very nice.greetings from greece.do you speak greek as well?

[Klezfiddle1]

@extrememark13 χαιρετισμούς από την Αγγλία!

[nebraskagirl8989]

um you need to actually make your own music too

[Klezfiddle1]

@nebraskagirl8989 I have done! My new album "Apollo's Lyre"(on iTunes by about May 2010) features original compositions in the original ancient modes/scales used in antiquity, (ncluding some of the ancient Greek modes, ancient Middle Eastern scales, ancient Hebrew scales & an ancient Egyptian scale) arranged for both replica wooden & skin-membraned lyres. All details on my "ancientlyre" website...

[kalara75]

Man Homer was an ancient rock star cool

[alydamarte]

Amazing this is truly beautiful

[lddevo88]

@Klezfiddle1 Thank God for Google Translate!

Χαιρετίσματα από το Δυτικό Κόσμο!

[rattinox]

This piece would make an utterly apropos background tune for playing a game called "The Epic of the Peloponnesian War", a boardgame with Athens and Sparta represented each by one (or more for the Allies) player...............

[italobrasileirinha]

I like it ;)

[drillhousen]

Μπράβο!! πολύ ωραίο!

[atfatw]

@Klezfiddle1 do you know any ancient Armenian songs? they had the hammered dulcimer so they probably had lyres

[systembreaker13]

@nebraskagirl8989 whats wrong with living inside this kind of music? and letting everyone else do the same.