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This video features my arrangement for solo lyre, of a fragment of surviving ancient Greek music, which can POSSIBLY be attributed to Homer; the almost legendary ancient Greek Poet himself, writer of the 2700 year old Epic Poems, "The Illiad" and "The Odyssey"!

I heard this captivating fragment of ancient Greek music on the recording "Musique de la Grece Antique"(which is available from Amazon).

As this fragment of ancient Greek music is so pitifully short, I have tried to arrange a more musically interesting performance of it, by finishing wih a little improvisation on the lyre - demonstrating an interesting lyre-playing technique almost certainly used in antiquity called "string-blocking". This technique entails blocking with the left hand, only the strings which are not required in the melody - this enables rhythm & basic chords to be strummed with a plectrum in the right hand...

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":
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"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