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Echoes of Ancient Greece...(3 of 4)

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Channel: Michael Levy · 2009 · Music

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A studio quality recording of this piece, can now be heard on my NEW CD ALBUM, "An Ancient Lyre": 
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mlevy4

This video features my arrangement for solo lyre, of "Hymn to the Muse" -  a hauntingly beautiful surviving fragment of the mostly lost music of ancient Greece. This piece was written almost 2000 years ago, by Mesomedes of Crete...

Mesomedes of Crete was a Greek lyric poet and composer of the early 2nd century AD. More information can be found at:

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Bios/Mesomedes.html

The translation of this ancient, 2000 or more year old song (which mercifully, I am NOT going to attempt to sing!), are as follows:

Sing, dearest Muse, and 
help me start my song.
Let the breeze coming 
through your forests
make my soul vibrate!

Oh, wise Calliope, 
you the leader of 
the gracious Muses,
and You wise Initiator 
of the Mysteries,
Latona's son, Delian, 
Paean, offer your help, 
being favorable to me!

Ψάλλε, αγαπητή σε μένα, Μούσα, 
κι αρχή δώσε στο τραγούδι μου,
αύρα ας έλθει από τα άλση σου
να δονήσει τις φρένες μου!

Σοφή Καλλιόπη, ηγήτειρα
των αγαπημένων Μουσών,
και Συ σοφέ Μυστοδότη,
τέκνο της Λητούς, Δήλιε, Παιάν,
ευμενείς, παρασταθήτε μου!

All of my 9 albums of mystical, ancient lyre music are now available from iTunes...

1)"An Ancient Lyre": http://bit.ly/dhCozi

2)"King David's Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel": 
http://bit.ly/9PCIua
                          
3)"The Ancient Biblical Lyre": http://bit.ly/9hTDje

4)"Lyre of the Levites": http://bit.ly/9baWuM

5)"Apollo's Lyre": http://bit.ly/dhCozi

6)"Ancient Times -- Music of The Ancient World": 
     http://bit.ly/aRF5PD

7)"The Ancient Greek Modes": http://bit.ly/cZks0o

8)"The Ancient Greek Lyre": http://bit.ly/bxO7Ra

9)"Ancient Visions -- New Compositions for an Ancient Lyre": http://bit.ly/dCPmRN

Physical CDs are also available anywhere in the world from CD Baby, for 3 of my best selling albums:

"An Ancient Lyre": http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mlevy4

"King David's Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel": 
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mlevy

"Lyre of the Levites": http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mlevy2

For full details about my albums of lyre music, and the fascinating ancient historical background, please visit my official website:

http://www.ancientlyre.com

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