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Michael Levy
12+ albums
early musicfolkancient musicancient greek musicmedieval
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Michael Levy is a daring, experimental self-taught musician & prolific composer, who since 2006, has focused his unique skills, at both intensively researching & recreating the ancient playing-techniques of the lyres of antiquity. Basing these techniques from both illustrations of ancient lyre players and the various playing-techniques still practiced today in Africa, he has independently produced 14 albums of ancient lyre music in just over 3 years... For the majority of Michael's albums, he plays an evocation of an ancient Biblical lyre called the “Kinnor” – once played by his very own, very ancient Levite ancestors in the Temple of Jerusalem, to accompany the singing of the Levitical Choir. His instrument is based on depictions of Temple lyres depicted on ancient Jewish coins minted at the time of the Simon Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman occupation of Judea (132–136 CE) The Kinnor is documented in both the Biblical texts & the writings of the 1st¢entury Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, who actually witnessed the Levites play their lyres in the Temple of Jerusalem during the 1st century CE. As the Kinnor is strikingly similar to the ancient Egyptian lyre of the New Kingdom, the ancient Greek Kithara & later, the Roman Kithara, Michael has also explored evoking & recreating the music of ancient Egypt, the music of ancient Greece & the music of ancient Rome, with both original compositions for lyre in a selection of some of the original ancient musical modes, as w
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"Hurrian Hymn no. 6" (c.1400BCE) - Ancient Mesopotamian Musical Fragment
8,0052The First Delphic Hymn To Apollo (Ancient Greek Melody c.138 BCE - Arranged For Replica Lyre)
5,3213Ode To Aphrodite (Original Composition For Replica Lyre in the Ancient Greek Hypodorian Mode)
4,1904Epitaph of Seikilos (Complete Ancient Greek Melody Composed by Seikilos, Son of Euterpe, 1st Century CE - Arranged For Replica Lyre)
3,9115Echoes of Ancient Rome (Original Composition for Replica Lyre in the Ancient Phrygian Mode)
3,2666Ode to Ancient Rome (Original Composition For Lyre in the Ancient Phrygian Mode)
3,1257Hurrian Hymn
3,0308The Temple of Mars (Original Composition for Replica Lyre in the Ancient Dorian Mode)
2,7909Hymn To The Muse (Mesomedes of Crete, c.130 CE - Arranged For Replica Lyre)
2,47910Mount Olympus (Original Composition For Replica Lyre in the Ancient Greek Hypophrygian Mode)
2,294albums
An Ancient Lyre
The Ancient Greek Lyre
Echoes of Ancient Rome
Ancient Landscapes
Apollo's Lyre
Ode to Ancient Rome
The Lyre of Apollo: The Chelys Lyre of Ancient Greece
Musical Adventures in Time Travel...
The Ancient Egyptian Harp
A Well Tuned Lyre - the Just Intonation of Antiquity
The Ancient Greek Modes
Echoes of Ancient Mesopotamia & Canaan