The Lyre Ensemble, OI Video Podcast, Part 2 | Playing the Gold Lyre of Ur
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Contemporary music played on an ancient Lyre. The Lyre Ensemble continues a discussion on the recreation of the Gold Lyre of Ur, focusing on both the possibilities and trappings of creating music on an ancient replica. Andy Lowings, Jennifer Sturdy, Mark Harmer, and Stef Conner sit down with the OI for a look at their project, The Flood, a piece of music that incorporates ancient texts into a speculation on what ancient music might have sounded like.
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Part 2 of the Lyre Ensemble podcast, continues our Contemporary Artist/Ancient Voices series, a set of conversations with artists who draw inspiration from the ancient Middle East.
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Music: They Lyre ensemble
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That excerpt Stef sings starting around 18:52 is so amazing and gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
Beautiful project! Thank you for bringing this to the public!
As a musically inept lover of music and a lover of ancient Mesopotamia texts, what a great presentation by @The Oriental Institute and all. Thank you and Happy Mother's Day to Ishtar. 😃
Absolutely wonderful - I've known Andy for many years and followed his work, inspired by his dogged determination and passion. Hearing what Stef and Mark are achieving is just delightful. Thank you all!
These lyre episodes are absolutely delightful. Very impressed with what these wonderful people have achieved!!! Very cool.
Stef's voice is amazing. I wonder if anyone was that good in Ur.
Absolutely amazing story -Well done to everybody involved. your passion and tenacity shines through. What an achievement
thank you so much 🥰
Wonderfull
Great work. The only thing I would have changed was to increase the share of instrument and reduce the amount of singing in the delivery. After all, the point of the exercise was to recreate and experience the ancient musical instrument.
Very, very beautiful the effort to bring the winds of the past to the present times. The singer is spectacular and technically very accurate. But I think that, to bring even more reality to the effort, a singer from Mesopotamia should have been involved. It would give a more original accent. Congratulations for your work. I loved it!
Is this the lyre of sumerian Ziusudra /Noah in hebrew the survivor of the great flood which warned by enki/Samyaza dirty of sea.
Ziusudra/Noah the son of king ubara tutu/amelech of city of shurupak.
King ubara tutu the grand grand son of adam/king alulim of eridu city.
Nice jam
From where did they get the melody? How did they select the notes?
It’s explained in the episode that it is a creative, modern interpretation and approximation based off the phenomenology of the ancient texts, and scholarly research also modern.
I'd venture in saying the Sumerian Rhapsodists had themselves a certain leeway when it comes to improvise their performance. I think more of the "scores" tablets would have been found as part of their respective temple archives, if music had to be played a decisive way. Musical sensitivity was probably constructed like Sumerian language, one that is offering alternate interpretations. Think of notes as they're phonemes with several alternate meanings. You wouldn't use the same words by words speech to appease a person, so why would they play music the same as they try to sooth their gods?
Perhaps the rare score tablets found existed for educational purpose. Since the rhapsodists were often chosen among the gifted blinds, reading would not only instruct them about the content but help hone their finger dexterity, too. Of course, I tell that as wild speculation.
NB. This is not a remark about the beauty of the music.
1- The singing and voicing techhnic is western "modern". There is no way it could even be close to reality. Not even today this singing technique is used in Iraq!
2- The melodies are also inspired by the western hymns, while trying to make them "raw" in a "shamanique" style.
Why not collaborate with some traditional singers/musicians from the area?