"Glory of the Parthenon"

A clip from "Glory of the Parthenon" (Composition For Lyre In The Ancient Greek Phrygian Mode). This track is from my new album, "The Ancient Greek Modes"...

The concept of this album, is to recreate the both the sounds of the musical modes once used in Ancient Greece (as described in the writings of Plato & Aristotle) & to restore the lost sounds of the ancient Greek Kithara - the large wooden lyre once favoured by the professional musicians of Ancient Greece...

THE ANCIENT GREEK MODES

The names of musical modes in use today, (e.g. Dorian, Mixolydian etc) although having the same names as the original Greek musical modes, were actually misnamed during the Middle Ages! Apparently, the Greeks counted intervals from top to bottom. When medieval ecclesiastical scholars tried to interpret the ancient texts, they counted from bottom to top, jumbling the information. The misnamed medieval modes are only distinguished by the ancient Greek modes of the same name, by being labelled Church Modes. It was due to a misinterpretation of the Latin texts of Boethius, that medieval modes were given the wrong Greek names!

According to an article on Greece in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and
Musicians, the original ancient Greek names for species of the octave included the following (on white keys):

B-B: Mixolydian
E-E: Dorian
A-A: Hypodorian
D-D: Phrygian
G-G: Hypophrygian
C-C: Lydian
F-F: Hypolydian

For what Plato & Aristotle themselves had this to say about these ancient musical modes, please see this fascinating link:

http://www.pathguy.com/modes.htm

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

All details on my website: http://www.ancientlyre.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Parthenon
• Ancient
• Greek
• Music
• Kithara
• Lyre
• Lyra
• Athena
• Nike
• Acropolis
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Socrates
• Homer
• Sparta
• Classics
• Zeus
• Athens
• Seikilos

[rurounisld]

hey hi, great job its sound very good!

may i ask where did u find the notes of this one ?

[Klezfiddle1]

@rurounisld Glad you like my "Musical Adventues in Time Travel"! This piece is one of my original compositions for replica Kithara-style lyre. It is a one-off, spontaneous improvisation on the ancient Greek Phrygian Mode. My album, "The Ancient Greek Modes" in which this track features, is available in CD format from Reverbnation, as well as MP3 downloads available from iTunes, Amazon MP3 Store & CD Baby...

[MsSandtime]

My beautiful Athenes,Greece.Is my Birth place. I'm very sad for what's hapening now.

[andreas28mw2]

very good my friend !keep up the good work ! it sounds perfect :)

[PICLex]

Great!

[HitlodeuPT]

Thanks Klezfiddle1 for sharing with us that beautiful music form the Ancient Greece. I truly love the harmony of the Ancient Greek art and their music is full of peace and serenity.

I hope that you continue with your good work!

Greetings from Portugal