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I think this chanting is a living tradition, its our modern ear who puts music into a cultural area ;-) )
You are educated with certain kinds of music automatically.
For that I envy people from Africa or Arabia, most of the time they are good in dancing a rythm.
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Greetings,
I just came across this video.....the song of Seikilos played on a 2000 year old lyre...a reproduction, I assume.
It's played rather hesitantly and flat in places...but it sounds rather good...and very familiar...?
[url:q2ke2sks]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1280941983[/url]
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Please look therefore my post above, this form of a lyre is not 2.000 years old, its quiet modern.
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The International Study Group on Music Archaeology
[url:2yyfzxlr]http://www.musicarchaeology.org/index.php[/url]
Their next conference is scheduled to take place in Berlin in 2008.
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Thank you, I am part of the group ;-) )
But during the last conference I gave birth to my son... :wink:
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Ioannis, Archaeological Institute of America...do you know
Dr. J.C. Franklin?
Susanna
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He has been working at:
http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/ for some time and is a reasearcher of ancient Greek Music.
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Bronze Age Lyra circa 1300 B.C. Made from Ivory.
Enjoy!
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Thank you very much, I did not know that lyra...
Have you got further informations about it?
Size, pic of the back?
Looks like the symbol of an ox-cult, were also the lyra form comes from. I guess the thinnie on the left side schould be a plektrum?
Where were the pegs? (on the right one?) and the tailpiece?
Also I do not think it is hollow...so the sound would be very thin...seomthing for cult? :wink:
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They did not gave details on the exibit label.
Probably you are right though.
Such a precious item must had been kept in the Temple "sanctun sancti" and used only in special ocassions.
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Beautiful, Stefanos! Thank you...
Where it was founded?
Susanna, by the way, check out private messeges.
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Comes from Argolide prefcture.
That means somewhere between Mycanae, Tyrins area.
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More Mycenaean evidence: The Lyre Player fresco from Pylos.
[url:2q3b5mbz]http://www.hartzler.org/cc307/mycenaean/images/60.jpg[/url]