Ancient Roman Lyre Music
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- "Ode To Ancient Rome" - an album of original compositions for solo lyre in the just intonation of antiquity, by Michael Levy.
Unlike ancient Greece, where at least 60 fragments of ancient Greek music have been preserved, only one pitiful shard of written music has survived from ancient Rome - a tiny measure by a Roman composer named Flaccus, wrote for the play "Hecyra" by Terence (& even this tiny fragment is no longer deemed to be authentic, according the musicologist Thomas J. Mathiesen)
However, since Rome borrowed so much from the culture of ancient Greece, in attempting to recreate an evocation of the lost music of ancient Rome, it is most likely that the Roman composers of antiquity also used the ancient Greek musical modes.
The piece heard in this video is "Ode To Ancient Rome"from which the album derives its title - an original composition for solo lyre, featuring the poignant ancient Greek Phrygian Mode, the equivalent intervals as D-D on the white notes of the piano (not to be confused with the misnamed Medieval "Phriygian" Mode of E-E!), performed on Kithara-style lyre in the just intonation of antiquity......
For full details, please visit:
www.ancientlyre...
Only 90s kids will remember this song
No not the 1990s, the 90s.
the XC's
Oh true, lol
This song is from 100 bc
And then there's Me an intellectual who grew up playing RuneScape lol
That's what these songs remind me of
Nobody:
Loading screens in western fantasy RPGs:
There is a track in witcher which reminds me alot of this
Shout out to DJ Nero
He dropped a mixtape so hot it burned down Rome itself
@@anywayimanime344 LOL 😂😂😂
This came out before the Colloseum was build. And before Nero was born. So im not really to sure who it was from or a music video must be wrong
MC pilatos
This just makes me want to visit ancient rome
Strangely resemblant of the Ezio era Assassin's Creed soundtrack
Twas set in Rome after all.
That and Elder Scrolls Oblivion somehow
yah_boi_niki sounds like Skyrim theme
This is a hot track.
Tru their mixtape must be fire
+daledheyalef I like you
cringy bastard
This is probably my favourite of all your music that I've heard so far. When I close my eyes and listen to it, I feel like I'm back in Ancient Rome. It truly is captivating, particularly for a Roman enthusiast such a myself.
I really do love the slower parts where you are strumming each string individually and I think this track is where you do this the most. I've imagined lyre players of ancient times mainly using this method, rather than gliding their thumbs over a series of strings quickly.
You used to live in Ancient Rome 😮
@@Mster_J indeed I did.
Idk why i feel like I've been in heaven when I listen this
i hear *swan lake* and *he's a pirate*
beautiful! I can imagine the Romans at dinning and listening to this.
Yeah, that strumming part made me taste garbanzo beans all of a sudden.
I wish people realize that music like this is what makes you cultured
Listenin to this watching satyr plays with 2 foot protsetic wangs.
Why do people have to be cultured
@@Mster_J because otherwise they’re demonic
I'm reading Boetius with these lovely melodies...thanks a lot!
Bravo .......bellissimo
this beautiful song really put into perspective how truly ancient and lasting rome was and is. Lasting over 1000 years and having completely faded off for over 600 years really shows how vast the time it spanned was. close to 1300 years in its full form and close to 2100 years in some other form. Truly awe inspiring
history according to Mussolini be like:
Some sounds look like inspiration for the assassins Creed 2 soundtracks
has anyone realized that this piece sounded like Swan lake in the beginning? That is where Tchaikovsky wrote it inspired/Borrowed the Melody based on this piece.
Nice to be compared to Tchaikovsky, but as the video description states, this presentation is of track 1 from my album "Ode to Ancient Rome" - an album of my own original compositions, inspired by ancient Roman themes, performed on a lyre tuned in a selection of ancient Greek modes heard in just intonation. My musical mission is actually to literally 'carry on where the ancients left off'...
@@MichaelLevyMusic Nice. But your composition sound calming, But the lyre sounded more like a guitar/Harp sound. I came here where music was invented years ago or so. I was wondering what the future music sound look like.
Some parts at the beginning sounded like Pirates of the Caribbean
I glad for the appear of such inventions in UA-cam. Reconstructions of sounds and melodies from thouusends years ago is very hard to work. I like that music records. This evokes the curiosity.
Excellent, absolutely fantastic!
I remember everyone was banging this masterpiece on their iStone.
A Guitar tab transcription of this would be great! :)
I wish I was there to see Rome during its height in power, when you can travel from Britannia to Syria and still be in the same nation, or walk around the city of Rome and gaze upon all the architecture and passing by senators on their way to work or and maybe even see the Imperator.
I love these melodies, but I really wish we could watch you perform them!! I do think that is a missing feature of the music. Thank you for the music, at least.
Behold, the BBC Four HD video of my lyre performance, filmed in an actual replica Iron Age round house, which I thankfully managed to acquire - this was the sadly missing outtake from the BBC Four 2012 documentary series, "The Dark Ages An Age of Light":
ua-cam.com/video/tEH8-c9HzlY/v-deo.html
@@MichaelLevyMusic thank you! I do feel watching the performance is an element that helps imagine how this music originally was heard. 🙂 It does for me at least.
@@MichaelLevyMusic , were those performances these? ua-cam.com/play/PLMukF3RspKy_-jSjtY6OIMaRPd60ETKuD.html
@@leohorishny9561 - I generally produce more ancient-themed slideshow style presentations for UA-cam, as all my other 'live' videos have to be record in my spare room - not the most inspirational vista of antiquity to complement my performance (unless one is really into a backdrop of bog standard 1960's house bedroom 'architecture'!!)
Is it just me or does it sound very much like the pirates of the Caribbean/gladiator battle theme?
Spencer F it does
@@teachandfunnstuff3127 San Juan de los cuales se encuentran en
Sublime my friend! Like said: " future has an ancient heart".
Congratulations from Brazil.
He's a pirate - from pirates of caribbean
OMG IM NOT THE ONLY ONE!!
LOL! The similarity is the use of the same musical mode in both the Pirates theme and my own melody presented here - both tunes use the equivalent intervals as D-D on the white notes of the piano: this was originally called the ancient Greek Phyrgian Mode...but due to a monumental mistake by early medieval scholars (presumably sloshed on mead at the time!), they went and labelled all the original ancient Greek modes with the wrong Greek names! This mode was hence misnamed the 'Dorian' mode, and the confusing double terminology for the names of the ancient musical modes survives to the present day.
Very interesting. congratulations for the interpretation , keep it up!
Swan lake by Tchaikovsky in the beginning also.
Thanks for letting me know where I can get both digital and physical copies from.
Keep up the great work. I hope it gets the recognition in the wider community that it deserves :)
Very nice playing, I added your video to my play list and subscribed.
+Julianus Maximianus Gratias - laudem Apollo!
hi i think i hear a few a skyrim theme lines
2021 here!😌🤩✨
what nice music god damn it, this is the 100th time a hear it
En una parte siento que suena como la de piratas del caribe y esta es la que usan en Assessin Creed Brotherhood
They are basically playing European post-renaissance music with ancient instruments. This music is very similar to Monteverdi - They have no idea how these ancient instruments were played with the correct scalar patterns, or rhythms.
This music like Lake in the moon light .
Castle music always a thing I would say from hearing this it reminds me something but I don't know what
First notes- Swan Lake
It's funny how you can hear this melodies in AC 2/brotherhood, they use the lyre for making an 16e s Italian ambiance. And it worked !
Nice reconstruction.
Beautiful...
Beautiful ❤
Stop! you violated the law!
Hey, beautiful music! May I use it for my school Latin project? I'll give you credit! :)
How did it go?
Wondeful music!
I needed this song for a school project and all the comments about mixtapes and DJs made me worried that it was gonna change into a rap or something lmao
So Beatiful❤
The start of the music kinda reminds me of Oblivion's npc dialogue theme
THIS IS FUCKING MUSIC.... Fuck the shit they play nowadays.. THIS IS S REAL FUCKING MUSIC.
00:57 grimace song
Feel's like in medieval game's music
The witcher and skyrim be like
Oblivion
Super
Certainly! Good luck with your project :)
It sounds a lot like Hurrian Hymn 6.
That's whats i thought tbh
it also features an Melody sounded like Tchaikovsky's swan lake in the beginning.
now i guess I understand the meaning of Lyra being named at one of my phone alarm sound
This song for my alarm
close your eyes and imagine yourself inside Age of Empires 2
This reminds me of Come Little children
Lovely
Ecelente
BENE FACTVM!
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus LINGVA LATINA NON PENIS CANINA EST
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ΩΗ ΝΕΥΕΡΜΙΝΔ
Ave!
Some parts of the song sounds like “ pirate of caribbean “theme !!!
At the time of creating this historically inspired lyre theme, I had never heard the theme from "Pirates of the Caribbean" - in an infinite universe, there certainly seems to be the possibility of infinite coincidences!
The coincidence, though, is only due to the fact that both my lyre theme and the Pirates of the Caribbean happen to share the same musical mode.
Anyone else play the roman map on black ops 3? That’s why I’m listening to this
You people need to read the description.
Where did you learn to play the Lyre, if you have a video that explains it, you can just send that?
Here is the video which explains the origin of how and why I taught myself to play my first lyre back in 2006 :
ua-cam.com/video/Yk5gFrKs7Ls/v-deo.html
I am working on an Aeneid dramatic reading. Would it be okay if I used this as background music for my recording?
Adam Schmitz It would sure be great to collaborate! Please let me know more details (including if this is for a profit or non profit making event) and get in touch on the contact form of my website:
www.ancientlyre.com/contact
May I use a part of the music for my channel's intro? Thanks in advance. :)
Certainly! All I would ask in return is to also place prominent a link there to my ancient Roman-themed albums:
ancientlyre.com/ancient_roman_themed_albums/
As an 'independent artist' without the benefit of a record company to promote my musical quest, the more free publicity to potentially receptive new target audiences I can get, is to me, like a 'libation to Apollo' in my musical mission to reintroduce the ancient lyre back in the soulless modern musical world - many thanks!
I'm not only gonna place the link in the description, but I will also talk in the video about you and your Roman-themed albums.Thank you so much, I really appreciate your help and the effort you put in your music. Much Love from Greece!
Valerius Sulpicius Maximus if this is genuine ancient Roman music then it should have entered public domain mmm... 1900 years ago or so
when do you start to upload videos
Soon
💆🏾♀
what if heaven is real, and it looks like the height of rome without evil or injustice? not that I believe any mortal has any idea of what it would look like, but what if it looked exactly like that and was bustling with not angels but merry people of all backgrounds dancing and singing among the unitarian angels?
Can i use some of your music (and especially this music) for my school project (i will add you in the describtion)
Certainly! Good luck with your project :)
@@MichaelLevyMusic thank you so much and keep going with making this kind of music it is very cool.
Est ce une partition antique? Certains morceaux ressemblent à Pirates des Caraïbes
Cette mélodie est en fait ma propre composition originale, inspirée de la Rome antique - la seule similitude avec le thème musical de "Pirates des Caraïbes" (que je n'avais même pas entendu au moment où j'ai créé cette mélodie) est que les 2 mélodies coïncident le même mode musical.
are these old instruments like from the ancient rome ?
It's beautiful but it makes me feel somehow heavy and uneasy. 😬
This one would be a great Just Intonation soundtrack for my favorite video game The Rise Of Rome / Age Of Empires 1. It's similar to the original soundtrack, and yet it is also truly justly intoned.
The particular notes for this song? Could tou share them sir?
I have a sheet music book to be published soon which will feature this tune - do keep an eye on my channel community news notifications for when it becomes available to order!
@@MichaelLevyMusic thanks for the heads up sir, im actually quite fond of your work
Nice to listen to whilst taking a hot bath
I have fond memories of playing some of my ancient Roman-themed creations at the 1st century Great Bath at the Roman Baths at Bath Spa, with the evocative timbre of my lyre dreamily bouncing across the still steamy, 2000 year old hot spring waters!
Pls the note of this music
100 BC or 100 AD?
Feels like from a Rome:Total war
ROMA IS THE WORLD WHERE ONLY YOV CAN REALLY FEEL THE HEART OF ANCIENT ROME
Can anybody tell me how accurate is this?
My ancestors had to have had some music that's funkier than this
No.
+Andre Caillot Well, it is possible that the Romans could've had disco, Techno, or pop. I guess.
Andre Caillot its roman music
back in the day this was considered very intense!😜
1:09
Can we have the music sheet ?
I do have a hand-written, freely downloadable PDF booklet of both some of my own compositions and surviving ancient Greek melodies, arranged for 10-string lyre:
www.ancientlyre.com/blogs/sheet_music_for_lyre/
Hi! What’s the name of the artist?
Me - my UA-cam Channel, my music. Continuing where the ancients left off, in creating new music for the recreated ancient lyre.
Calma pagana para hacer penetrar en el mágico oído romano la consumación vital tras la sangrienta guerra.
Where can i have one, and how it cost?
💙
0:52 pirates of the Caribbean?
Sounds like Swan Lake
This is the Hurrian Hymn..
It is only in the same musical mode as Richard Dumbrill's first interpretation of the Hurrian Hymn, which is why it might sound similar, but the tune is 100% my own creation (unless my mind has been taken over by the goddess Nikkal!). Dumbrill has since concluded that the actual melody of the Hurrian Hymn text H6 may have been 'Maqamized' and sounded more like this:
ua-cam.com/video/9wJP2G_1UjE/v-deo.html
Unlike the 60 or so fragments of notated music from ancient Greece, there has so far been no actual surviving notated music from ancient Rome discovered which has been 100% verified as being authentic. However, since the Romans borrowed so much of their art and architecture from ancient Greece, it follows that it is very likely that in their music, they almost certainly borrowed the well documented ancient Greek musical modes - so in creating this evocation of the lost music of ancient Rome, all these original compositions for solo lyre, use a selection of the original ancient Greek modes in authentic just intonation.
I can hear the golden ratio :)
🌞⏳ 2:32 👍
emporer Nero fiddled while Rome burned 🔥
Ben Stevenson he actually sung
pirates of caribbean
Romans aka Phoenicians aka Celts
Idk
Graveyard Keeper
Came here from redgreymusic
The most oldest relaxing music ever
S.P.Q.R.
I love the roman senate and people