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"In some way, the lyre, as an emotion, creates a feeling that is otherworldly," said Giorgos Tsomeidis, 22, a student of the ancient Greek lyre in the city of Thessaloniki.
“In some way, the lyre, as an emotion, creates a feeling that is otherworldly,” said Giorgos Tsomeidis, 22, a student of the ancient Greek lyre in the city of Thessaloniki.
Accompanied by a four-stringed lyre-like instrument called a phorminx, “the Homeric bard” would improvise the “melody at the same time as he improvised his text, which was unique in every ...
Apollo plays the lyre. Wikimedia Commons. What about the tunes – the melody and harmony? This is what most people mean when they claim that ancient Greek “music” is lost.
It takes care, precision and a lot of research - something the Koumartzis family in northern Greece have committed themselves to doing in order to revive the instruments of ancient Greece.
Lyre music would have sounded clean, resonant, and harmonically perfect — reflecting celestial ideals. Aulos-accompanied songs, by contrast, would have felt rawer, more dramatic, and emotionally ...
It's called "My Painted Lyre" and will celebrate music in the neighborhood. It'll feature 26 interpretations of the lyre, an ancient Greek instrument. Some of the art pieces were inspired by Greek ...
Researchers have unearthed the remains of ancient Greek musical instruments - a harp and a lyre - on the Taman Peninsula in southern Russia MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. Researchers from the Institute ...
A stringed instrument more than 1,000 years old found in what is now Kazakhstan is nearly identical to one from the Sutton Hoo ‘ship burial’ in Britain.
GREECE-CULTURE/MUSIC (PIX, TV):'Meeting with the past', Greek family keeps ancient instruments alive | World News. ... an ancient Greek musical instrument, which was a lyre of Hermes," he said, ...
"In some way, the lyre, as an emotion, creates a feeling that is otherworldly," said Giorgos Tsomeidis, 22, a student of the ancient Greek lyre in the city of Thessaloniki.
In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching nine strings that when plucked ...