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11-07-2008, 07:16 PM
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Ancient Greek music is a particular specialilty of mine and so I thought I'd post a video from YouTube I've just found. First Delphic Hymn to Apollo
This is probably the oldest complete song in the world that is still playable. The instrument is a kinnor, a relation to the kithara.
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11-07-2008, 07:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Indiana | | | The description of the video is the coolest part |
11-07-2008, 07:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | I learned how to play that song using almost all harmonics. Very cool melody, I wish more of it existed. |
11-07-2008, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by LowDown Hal Bass Players - Do It Deep | |
11-07-2008, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by funkalicious101 I learned how to play that song using almost all harmonics. Very cool melody, I wish more of it existed. |
Got any tab/chords/sheet?
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Mediocre Bassist Club #706 P&W Club #71 LGBT #26 Keyboardist #40 Quote:
Originally Posted by LowDown Hal Bass Players - Do It Deep | |
11-07-2008, 07:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | Sorry, I just realized I'm thinking of a different piece. This one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph
You should ask the guy with the youtube video though, he might share it with you.
Last edited by funkalicious101 : 11-09-2008 at 11:18 AM.
Reason: link fixed.... several days later
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11-07-2008, 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht Ancient Greek music is a particular specialilty of mine and so I thought I'd post a video from YouTube I've just found. First Delphic Hymn to Apollo
This is probably the oldest complete song in the world that is still playable. The instrument is a kinnor, a relation to the kithara. | Very spooky sounding...
Do you know what kind of scale the piece is written in? It sounds a bit like the locrian mode, but with some microtonal pitches. Or maybe it just sounds microtonal to me because it's not using the well-tempered tuning system I'm used to hearing. |
11-09-2008, 12:33 AM
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Originally Posted by edbutler3 Very spooky sounding...
Do you know what kind of scale the piece is written in? It sounds a bit like the locrian mode, but with some microtonal pitches. Or maybe it just sounds microtonal to me because it's not using the well-tempered tuning system I'm used to hearing. | I'll try and find out. The Greeks did use a pentatonic scale so I'm sure that it won't be wildly different to a modern scale...
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11-09-2008, 11:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | No, it was celts and gauls who use pentatonics. Greeks invented the modes we have today based to tetrachords. |
11-09-2008, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by funkalicious101 No, it was celts and gauls who use pentatonics. Greeks invented the modes we have today based to tetrachords. | I believe they actually invented some completely different modes based on tetrachords.
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