it is absolutely incredible that a song managed to survive for over a thousand years. What a beautiful song too. Its such a terrible shame we lose so much to time.
So haunting, music reaching across the centuries, heard by me in the most modern way possible, via the internet. Beautiful instruments, wonderful work.
Since you went through the trouble of actually re-creating the instruments, this is probably the most accurate version of that song that will ever be posted on RUclips ;)
Amazing that these instruments & musical style sounds like it sits exactly in the middle of all the cultural music from around the world. I hear hints of European, East Asian, Middle Eastern, Indian, African, & even Aboriginal Australian. Native American music isn't too far off, but has a bit more uniqueness than the rest.
sorry but i dont hear it north African and north Indian music both influenced by middle easterns and Greco-Roman was influenced by Mesopotamian but they upgraded it in Islamic golden age Arabs adopted Greco-Roman style so today's middle eastern music + Balkan especially Greek music is direct continuity of Mesopotamian + Greco-Roman music so there is that
Great Composers: Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Chopin, Kay... You are a Genius, Young Man... All the Former may Have Created Great pieces, and Played many instruments, However, You Make Them; and, Play and Sing With a Spirit far Beyond tHis Realm, Heavenly. You Brought Me Peace... Thank You.
What is life without music It is a panacea in the era of hue & cry Thank you for sharing your gifts with us! If Seikilos only knew what a treasure he was leaving for us by carving his all-too brief composition into stone; one can only imagine the volume of the enchantments composed on paper that have been lost to the ravages of time.
If I could, I would put ten thousand likes. Thank you very much for continuing to post the video here. Your work is incomparable. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
This really brings the past forward. I think of the countless beautiful compositions that have been painstakingly created, enjoyed and then lost to time.
Not only beautiful, and wonderfully performed, but also extremelly moving and inspiring. I'm currently writing a paper on the value of clasic culture on today's world, and your music and your voice I get in the mood to fall in love with early history more than ever. If this is not a love declaration, I don't know what is 😜
What an exceptionally beautiful and historic performance! Listening to the very ancient piece of music, 'Epitaph of Seikolos,' played on Greek instruments such as the lyre and Har-Mose lute, is a truly amazing and exciting experience. I highly recommend this video to all enthusiasts of historical music.
Seems like you're farther along the same journey, making your own instruments because they're hard to come by. I just finished up building a lyre. One project I have in mind is building the instruments from Middle Earth, especially since music was fairly emphasized in the books. I kind of want to try to develop styles for dwarves and elves, but really focus on using the most appropriate things from older and newer traditions, really trying to get in deeper touch with the emotional and intuitive language of music. I've been thinking of producing some of these older instruments and figuring out how to market them, especially easy ones to make like the anglo saxon lyre. But, I also see these cheap 100 dollar lyre harps being fairly popular, and they don't fit any particular tradition, but rather are treated as a beginner instrument. I also have something in mind for that type of thing, but perhaps with more old world inspiration so that the instrument has more of that old world magic.
This hymnic style is between happiness and sadness. Today european music is too happy, while midlde eastern is too sad. Such middle ground feeling you can find at the edges of the map, papua ,sahel, in some parts of south east asia,maybe ireland
Thanks Brian! It was enlightening and very beautiful. The lute part's so hypnotizing, it took me away for a couple of minutes. Btw, it would be nice to see a tour on your instruments.
I love that youve put the time and effort to bring us as close as possible to the authentic sound as you could. How many people would do that? Also the turtle shell instruments remind me of a Turtle shell banjo Ive seen around. Crazy to think what I used to consider a creative hillbilly instrument is now closer to being an ancient instrument than a modern lute
This is absolutely incredible. Music is such an amazing thing and I feel like you’ve taken me back in time. Thank you for sharing this. Im extremely grateful people are keeping this stuff alive.
.. working on an extensive immersive electronic music project ... this is already an absolutely inspiring reference ... thank you Sir for this gifting of a perfect introduction to this perfect masterpiece
My home. In ancient days. Alula. Thanks for this. Untainted. Complete. Pure. We return to CREATOR knowing the truth. Our Souls DON'T speak English we speak Creator. I love love love love love love love love love love love you all. Your talent is amazing Artist work. Full circle to the True Humans that love CREATOR. Ancestors loving us still.....play on
That was so beautiful. Can you write that out for me with words and musical notation? I so love it. I have ordered my 7 string lyre from Lutherios is Greece and the lyre Method by Dr Nikolaos Xanthousis. I am an amatuer luthier and would very much like to make my own lyre. Do you have any notes on construction please? I am interested in what skin to use and how it is stretched and secured. I will make the lyre for my own personal use. I am not a business and of no threat to you. Many thanks for your wonderful video.
Awesome, I am writing a story where two of the characters often play music together one with a Lute one with a Lyre I searched to hear what it might sound like, i never heard a lyre before,
Yes it is! You can see in many of the images from Ancient Greece a very clear string going from pick to instrument. It also appears in ancient Egyptian images.
Nicely done I'm learning banjo and have been researching how ancient Sumerians tuned up , I can't figure out how to tune my 5 string banjo if I were to play along , what would you recommend ?
Hello Brian Kay. I was wondering if you would be willing to share your sheet music with a fellow lyrist. I found your rendition to be very beautiful and it is something I would like to play, however I am not skilled enough to learn by watching your movements. Best regards, Rusty ps. disregard my funny channel name and pfp. It is simply for giggles.
How did you discover how it tuned? I noticed in one of the old pictures shown here one guy is playing rhythm with a plectrum while the other fellow is playing lead with possibly a singer standing there. Could also be a listener.
The recreation of the instruments is awesome and the performance. Awesome there. I have problems with the version. Greek people loved simplicity, and the lyrics invites to relax and joy, you made it sound almost baroque, almost tedious. I could feel even the air of the sea in the melody, but not in your version
It is very crude. The instrument I built is hypothetical because there isn’t much iconography. But lutes and Ouds supposedly have a round back because it’s a holdover from a more ancient lute with a turtle shell back.
@@briankayofficial3237 Fascinating. There is more speculation about the genesis of round-backed lutes in an article by Harvey Turnbull entitled "The Genesis of Carvel-Built Lutes" (Musica Asiatica 1, Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 75-84), in which a lute almost exactly matching the one you built (the one without the cuts in the top skin) is depicted. Turnbull discusses Curt Sachs's ideas about the matter and discusses various materials and production techniques used for ancient lute resonators, including mention of dried gourds and carvel-built wooden construction as well as tortoise shells.
It’s as if the music has no regard for the thousands of years gone by. It still connects all who hear it.
Amen
it is absolutely incredible that a song managed to survive for over a thousand years. What a beautiful song too. Its such a terrible shame we lose so much to time.
" 🎵O Kronos Apaitei 🎵" ... Time Requires its due
So haunting, music reaching across the centuries, heard by me in the most modern way possible, via the internet. Beautiful instruments, wonderful work.
Since you went through the trouble of actually re-creating the instruments, this is probably the most accurate version of that song that will ever be posted on RUclips ;)
Wrong because he said it himself he's doing an improvisation on the instrument to the lyrics... he's not playing the actual song.
Probably the best rendition of this piece that I've ever heard! Well done!
Wow. Thank you!
Amazing that these instruments & musical style sounds like it sits exactly in the middle of all the cultural music from around the world. I hear hints of European, East Asian, Middle Eastern, Indian, African, & even Aboriginal Australian. Native American music isn't too far off, but has a bit more uniqueness than the rest.
Thanks so much for saying this. I was hoping to convey this so it’s great to hear that it landed.
@@briankayofficial3237 what is the second instrument, I wanna play it. And I am willing to break a few nails and finger bruses for it.
sorry but i dont hear it north African and north Indian music both influenced by middle easterns and Greco-Roman was influenced by Mesopotamian but they upgraded it in Islamic golden age Arabs adopted Greco-Roman style so today's middle eastern music + Balkan especially Greek music is direct continuity of Mesopotamian + Greco-Roman music so there is that
Great Composers: Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Chopin, Kay...
You are a Genius, Young Man...
All the Former may Have Created Great pieces, and Played many instruments, However,
You Make Them; and, Play and Sing With a Spirit far Beyond tHis Realm, Heavenly.
You Brought Me Peace...
Thank You.
What is life without music
It is a panacea in the era of hue & cry
Thank you for sharing your gifts with us! If Seikilos only knew what a treasure he was leaving for us by carving his all-too brief composition into stone; one can only imagine the volume of the enchantments composed on paper that have been lost to the ravages of time.
If I could, I would put ten thousand likes. Thank you very much for continuing to post the video here. Your work is incomparable. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I wish you could!! Thanks so much. Reactions like this really mean a lot to me.
It seems I have reached the absolute limit of finding the ‘deep cuts’
How can this video not have 10 million views? Amazing work, thank you!
So ancient and mystic!
Bravo! 👌🏻🏛👏🏻
This is absolutely amazing. That section with the drums had me in some sort of hypnosis.
I love the instruments and the unusual meters in the interpretation (which is usually in strict 6/8 time). I love the freedom!
Hi Brian, I am truly honoured that you have brought a piece of my ancestry back to life, thank you my friend. Music truly unites humanity 👏🤝
Greek beat! Love it!
And to think it came together using modern digital editing.
Exciting artistic interpretation... old and new.
Bravo!
So enthralling!! Thank you for putting your time and dedication into recreating what these beautiful songs must have sounded like ❤
This really brings the past forward. I think of the countless beautiful compositions that have been painstakingly created, enjoyed and then lost to time.
Not only beautiful, and wonderfully performed, but also extremelly moving and inspiring. I'm currently writing a paper on the value of clasic culture on today's world, and your music and your voice I get in the mood to fall in love with early history more than ever.
If this is not a love declaration, I don't know what is 😜
Making music is the best thing that humans have ever done.
Beautifully done.. closed my eyes and listened before I started my day.
What an exceptionally beautiful and historic performance! Listening to the very ancient piece of music, 'Epitaph of Seikolos,' played on Greek instruments such as the lyre and Har-Mose lute, is a truly amazing and exciting experience. I highly recommend this video to all enthusiasts of historical music.
Seems like you're farther along the same journey, making your own instruments because they're hard to come by. I just finished up building a lyre. One project I have in mind is building the instruments from Middle Earth, especially since music was fairly emphasized in the books.
I kind of want to try to develop styles for dwarves and elves, but really focus on using the most appropriate things from older and newer traditions, really trying to get in deeper touch with the emotional and intuitive language of music.
I've been thinking of producing some of these older instruments and figuring out how to market them, especially easy ones to make like the anglo saxon lyre. But, I also see these cheap 100 dollar lyre harps being fairly popular, and they don't fit any particular tradition, but rather are treated as a beginner instrument. I also have something in mind for that type of thing, but perhaps with more old world inspiration so that the instrument has more of that old world magic.
This hymnic style is between happiness and sadness. Today european music is too happy, while midlde eastern is too sad. Such middle ground feeling you can find at the edges of the map, papua ,sahel, in some parts of south east asia,maybe ireland
Im having a hard time believing theres others. Many years ago i looked away to hear something close. Thanks man
It's honestly hard to imagine how a person could play such a song so flawlessly.
Thanks Brian! It was enlightening and very beautiful. The lute part's so hypnotizing, it took me away for a couple of minutes.
Btw, it would be nice to see a tour on your instruments.
Great suggestion. I will probably begin to do more talk videos with demonstrations of my instruments.
I love that youve put the time and effort to bring us as close as possible to the authentic sound as you could. How many people would do that? Also the turtle shell instruments remind me of a Turtle shell banjo Ive seen around. Crazy to think what I used to consider a creative hillbilly instrument is now closer to being an ancient instrument than a modern lute
This is absolutely incredible. Music is such an amazing thing and I feel like you’ve taken me back in time. Thank you for sharing this. Im extremely grateful people are keeping this stuff alive.
wonderful...my guitar weeps
Truly impressive and very beautiful, Brian. You continue to amaze!
Thank you and miss you all!
.. working on an extensive immersive electronic music project ... this is already an absolutely inspiring reference ... thank you Sir for this gifting of a perfect introduction to this perfect masterpiece
So gorgeous, bless you for keeping it alive ❤❤❤
soft and haunting. Thank you for your dedication. you have a beautiful voice
Beautiful song, you can also hear well where the later music styles from the middle east came from.
Yes I agree
All that is missing is boisterous applause at the conclusion.
Here we go thats how you recall music properly. You need the original instruments.
My home. In ancient days. Alula. Thanks for this. Untainted. Complete. Pure. We return to CREATOR knowing the truth. Our Souls DON'T speak English we speak Creator. I love love love love love love love love love love love you all. Your talent is amazing Artist work. Full circle to the True Humans that love CREATOR. Ancestors loving us still.....play on
Bravo!
Spin me back down the years and the days of my youth.
That was so beautiful.
Can you write that out for me with words and musical notation?
I so love it.
I have ordered my 7 string lyre from Lutherios is Greece and the lyre Method by Dr Nikolaos Xanthousis.
I am an amatuer luthier and would very much like to make my own lyre.
Do you have any notes on construction please?
I am interested in what skin to use and how it is stretched and secured.
I will make the lyre for my own personal use. I am not a business and of no threat to you.
Many thanks for your wonderful video.
Can't stop wating it again and again.
Awesome, I am writing a story where two of the characters often play music together one with a Lute one with a Lyre I searched to hear what it might sound like, i never heard a lyre before,
Fretting with harmonics . No neck . Wonderful .
What a wonderful way to not lose a pick! Oh yeah, the music is beautiful and some very interesting techniques. Bravo.
Yes it is! You can see in many of the images from Ancient Greece a very clear string going from pick to instrument. It also appears in ancient Egyptian images.
You got some usually instruments there and they sound nice too
Brian Kay Official - Absolutely fantastic.
I love this Har Mose lute
Absolutely lovley! I love your lyre playing technique!
Thanks
Amazing and inspiring! What are the turnings for the instruments?
That is beautiful, and you have such a lovely voice.
incredible i can vibe with it as a middle eastern that shows how middle eastern music is direct continiuty of Greco-Roman music
Now that's living the dream.
beautiful! thank you!
can i like get a download of some melodies you have with these instruments? am a producer the vocals are nice too
Now this is worth subscribing to. Very well done.
Sophisticated .
WOW!!! BEAUTIFUL instrument builds! SUBLIME performance! BRAVO!!!
Thanks!
That's awesome and imperative.
Great channel. A pleasure 🛶
Incredibly impressive. Very well done.
Thank you for a professional listen into the past.
You are welcome
Thank you for sharing this! Great work! Bravo! :)
Amazing work! Glad to see a new video!
Thanks. Glad you subscribed!
Amazing work.
Nicely done I'm learning banjo and have been researching how ancient Sumerians tuned up , I can't figure out how to tune my 5 string banjo if I were to play along , what would you recommend ?
Would you tell us a bit about the musical notation?
Wow best musical chain ever
Lovely. Love the instruments you made also. I like making these too! Beautiful!
all together beautifully done
Love this. Great job
By any chance was this made into a single i want to put rhis on Spotify
Awesome
Thank you
True frequencies of God. Thanks family
Yes 🙏✨✨
I love your stuff. I tell everyone about you. Keep it up.
Thank you so much and thanks for sharing!
Amazing! Bravo!
Thanks a lot!
Seriously you are awesome
Fascinating and beautiful. thank you!
You are welcome!
Reminds me of the old days ❤
¡This is awesome! Thank you for sharing.
it reminds me of white rabbit jefferson airplane 4:36 only this is more pleasing to my ears
Amazing.Love It.
Hello Brian Kay. I was wondering if you would be willing to share your sheet music with a fellow lyrist. I found your rendition to be very beautiful and it is something I would like to play, however I am not skilled enough to learn by watching your movements.
Best regards,
Rusty
ps. disregard my funny channel name and pfp. It is simply for giggles.
This is the origin of the guitar !
You are special 💛🥇🌟
So are you ; )
Epically wowed!
That was beautiful ❤
I'm trying to make electronic music like this with these drums instead of the drums from jungle or drum n bass.
this is excellent
Incredible
Cool you did great 👍👍
How did you discover how it tuned? I noticed in one of the old pictures shown here one guy is playing rhythm with a plectrum while the other fellow is playing lead with possibly a singer standing there. Could also be a listener.
Impressive!
Isn't "A Zaluzi to the Gods" older?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_songs
Hurricane hymn no.6 is older, and substantial, but not a complete song. Some of it is missing, requiring reconstruction for performance.
@@BlackberryOrchestra But that missing part is not an obstacle to render. You can play it. I like your this song rendition.
This is true, but that is why the song, the way it comes to us, is considered incomplete. There is missing music.
The recreation of the instruments is awesome and the performance. Awesome there. I have problems with the version. Greek people loved simplicity, and the lyrics invites to relax and joy, you made it sound almost baroque, almost tedious. I could feel even the air of the sea in the melody, but not in your version
Bro...u are..❤ great thank U❤
Bro! You are a super badass! Respect!
About what tuning are the instruments here? especially interested in the 3 stringed lute.
Is that really a depiction of a Greek lute from an ancient pottery piece at 00:55? The depiction is a bit crude.
It is very crude. The instrument I built is hypothetical because there isn’t much iconography. But lutes and Ouds supposedly have a round back because it’s a holdover from a more ancient lute with a turtle shell back.
@@briankayofficial3237 Fascinating. There is more speculation about the genesis of round-backed lutes in an article by Harvey Turnbull entitled "The Genesis of Carvel-Built Lutes" (Musica Asiatica 1, Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 75-84), in which a lute almost exactly matching the one you built (the one without the cuts in the top skin) is depicted. Turnbull discusses Curt Sachs's ideas about the matter and discusses various materials and production techniques used for ancient lute resonators, including mention of dried gourds and carvel-built wooden construction as well as tortoise shells.
Luteallica wrote this. From their album ride the chariot.
Quality content as always.
Thank you. I hope to keep it up!
This makes me want to go and play Odyssey again-
Odyssey was great. Origins is what originally prompted me to build these instruments... Looking forward to playing Valhalla!
@@briankayofficial3237 yes i prefer origins. Its where i saw the lute and it sounds like the oud