Magic of the Kithara: The Golden Age of Pericles
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- A live performance of "The Golden Age of Pericles" - track 11 from my new album in progress, "Magic of the Kithara". Originally featured on my 2015 album, "The Ancient Greek Tortoise Shell Lyre", this new arrangement of the piece for recreated ancient Greek kithara, attempts to evoke the Golden Age of Pericles (461-429 BCE) -a golden period of history,
which enabled the necessary conditions for Athens to rise as an academic and artistic superstructure, which gave birth to Western Philosophy.
This tune started life as a spontaneous improvisation in the poignant, yearning ancient Greek Phrygian Mode, perfect for expressing an evocation of the lost world of the “Golden Age” of Athenian culture which flourished under the leadership of Pericles (495-429 B.C.), a brilliant general, orator, patron of the arts and politician-”the first citizen” of democratic Athens, according to the historian Thucydides.
Originally arranged for replica ancient Greek tortoise shell lyre, in my 2015 album, "The Ancient Greek Tortoise Shell Lyre", this new arrangement of the piece for the deeper, more resonant timbre of the recreated ancient Greek kithara adds a new depth to the melodic ideas.
Due for release on all the usual digital music platforms on 1st January 2025, each and every one of the tracks for "Magic of the Kithara" can be previewed, as they are created, only on Bandcamp:
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The kithara reached its pinnacle during the 5th century BCE. There is plenty of controversy about the construction - the curious spring-like structures clearly illustrated below the crossbeam to which the strings are attached, could either be interpreted as structural (providing equal & opposite reaction to the downward pull of the strings on the slender arms of the kithara, as most academic scholars believe), or maybe even evidence of some form of mechanical vibrato/portamento mechanism!
My recreated ancient Greek kithara was hand-made in modern Greece by Luthieros:
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For more detailed information on the kithara of classical antiquity, please also see my own website blog:
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Always a pleasure to see a skilled man practice art.
Glory to you
Impressive as always Michael, is like a travel back in time, a real one. Thank you for your music
I often listen to your music while writing poetry and odes about Ancient Greece - gods, places, and state of mind. Thank you for your art.
Beautiful ❤
It's awesome to hear some new music great job Michael!
Many thanks! Strictly speaking, this tune is an 'old new ancient-themed' tune...first conjured up by me back in 2015 for a track performed on my tortoise shell lyre, but featuring the poignant ancient Greek Phrygian mode (misnamed the 'Dorian' in the muddled Middle Ages!), also tuned in just intonation.
The beauty of my recreated lyres are their completely different 'one of a kind' timbres, (something lost in the standardised construction of modern orchestral instruments), so sometimes I like to use them like 'organ stop' - the same melody played here on the deeper, more resonant & clearer timbre of my kithara, takes on an entirely different, grander meaning in the new arrangement!
@@MichaelLevyMusic I saw that later, but I am really so glad to have seen new uploads!! I tooked too much time to see it sadly
@@MichaelLevyMusic I feel like the lyres should be totally reconsider and I am happy your channel has made such an idea reappear for a small circle but still