Ancient Babylonian Music Played on Replica 3000 Year Old Lyre!

A clip from my new album, "The Ancient Biblical Lyre". This ancient wedding song of the Babylonian Jews in Israel was carefully collected and transcribed almost a century ago by the musicologist A.Z Idelsohn.

It is played here on a replica of the ancient Biblical "Nevel" Lyre - one of the lyres once played by the Levites in the Temple of Jerusalem to accompany the singing of the Levitical Choir...

The translation of the song is:

"I will sing songs to God at the coming of the redeemer.This terrified,innocent,& fair daughter - hurry to redeem her now.Elijah will come & she will be redeemed"

The traditional music of the Babylonian Jews is unique, as it may well be the "Invisible Baggage" of the Jews who were sent into exile there, after the destruction of the First Temple of Jerusalem by King Nebuchadrezzar II, in 586BC! These melodies therefore, MAY be representative of the very earliest aural memory of Jewish music, EVER...from the almost Legendary Era of the Ark of the Covenant, & King Solomon's Temple!

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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:

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Many thanks for watching!

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[Rykhart]

Wonderful music and wonderful slide presentation!

Excellent!

[26mel1]

It sounds so nice yet it has this longing , wow ! Thank you Klezfiddle1 :-)

[darkstar0000001]

@silencerddddd ......well no duh...i didnt say jews were phoenicians...i have both as ancestors...proud of both...and actually noone owns the land...was given to everyone by g-d...he owns it, we just live on it...

[MadeInOregon27]

What just happened to me.. lol

[Elizabetherb]

no one can own land.

[darkstar0000001]

@silencerddddd ...who are your elders...mine are phoenicians...the real owners of the land...

[silencerddddd]

nice music but most of info said by klez about solomon temple is nt true for the excavation that have been done along years in jerusalem had not gave any proof that this temple ever existed it is just an israely lie to justify their occupation to palestine you might say fk off it is just a song yes but i know that no one of you accept for his history to be distorted i have no problemc with jews instead i have one with israely zionists that occupy my elders land peace to all

[knoxvilleguy2]

@Pestinha92 - You should have seen REAL harps from the city of Ur. They had a huge one at an exhibition at a museum in my hometown. They were so large they must have been ceremonial. It would have taken a STRONG harpist to play this one.

Ur was discovered about the same time as the tomb of " King Tut ", but it wasn't a prime tourist destination like most of the sites in Egypt.