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Music of the Golden Age of Pericles?

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Channel: Michael Levy · 2017 · Music

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"The Golden Age of Pericles" - track 1 from my album, "The Ancient Greek Tortoise Shell Lyre":

http://ancientlyre.com/ancient_greek_themed_albums/the_ancient_greek_tortoise_shell_lyre/

This album was inspired as a tribute to the great philosophers of ancient Greece, performed on an inspirationally authentic replica tortoise shell lyre, hand-made in modern Greece by Luthieros Ancient & Modern Music Instruments, with an actual tortoise shell for the resonator and actual goat horns for the arms of this magnificent musical instrument of the ancient Greek gods!

"The Golden Age of Pericles" is a spontaneous improvisation in the poignant, yearning ancient Greek Phrygian Mode, perfect for expressing an evocation of the lost world of the “Golden Age” of Athenian culture, which flourished under the leadership of Pericles (495-429 B.C.), a brilliant general, orator, patron of the arts and politician—”the first citizen” of democratic Athens, according to the historian Thucydides. 

The Age of Pericles (461-429 BCE) denotes the period of history in which enabled the necessary conditions for Athens to rise as an academic and artistic superstructure which gave birth to Western Philosophy, in turn acting as the foundations of all we claim to know within our postmodern society and all its previous developments. Some have come to know this era as “The Golden Age” because in such a short period of time, advancements in all fields of practice flourished by merely by questioning the foundations in which knowledge was built from and if error was identified, correcting it by re-establishing the foundations in which its conception originated. The first track sets the mood of the album by strumming the foundations in which made this album possible.


THE TRACKS:

1.The Golden Age of Pericles
2. Plato’s Symposium
3. The Garden of Epicurus
4. Rhetoric of the Sophists
5. The Life of Pyrrho
6. The Paradox of Parmenides
7. The Death of Socrates

A free PDF of the detailed album notes can be downloaded here:

http://www.ancientlyre.com/files/The_Ancient_Greek_Tortoise_Shell_Lyre.pdf

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