Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"The Grief of Penthos" - a live performance of track 6, from my 2022 album, "Orpheus Tamed the Animals: Mythological Music for Ancient Greek Lyre". Available from all the usual digital music platforms, CD quality audio can also be purchased from Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/orpheus-tamed-the-animals-mythological-music-for-ancient-greek-lyre
Penthos was the ancient Greek personified spirit (daimon) of grief and lamentation. He may have been numbered amongst the Algea (the personification of Sorrows).
This piece for recreated ancient lyre, features the mournful, poignant qualities of the ancient Greek Phrygian Mode. Misnamed the 'Dorian' mode by scholars in the Middle Ages, this is haunting musical mode formed of 2 conjoined tetrachords which form the equivalent intervals as D-D on the white notes of the piano, but heard here, in the pristine focus of ancient just intonation, which further enhances the distinctive expressive qualities of all the ancient musical modes.
Originally written for 11 string chelys (tortoise shell form) lyre, in this live performance I extend the range of the more harp-like timbre of my 10 string lyre to 11 strings, simply by using an ocatve harmonic on the 4th string from the bottom.
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"The Grief of Penthos" - a live performance of track 6, from my 2022 album, "Orpheus Tamed the Animals: Mythological Music for Ancient Greek Lyre". Available from all the usual digital music platforms, CD quality audio can also be purchased from Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/orpheus-tamed-the-animals-mythological-music-for-ancient-greek-lyre
Penthos was the ancient Greek personified spirit (daimon) of grief and lamentation. He may have been numbered amongst the Algea (the personification of Sorrows).
This piece for recreated ancient lyre, features the mournful, poignant qualities of the ancient Greek Phrygian Mode. Misnamed the 'Dorian' mode by scholars in the Middle Ages, this is haunting musical mode formed of 2 conjoined tetrachords which form the equivalent intervals as D-D on the white notes of the piano, but heard here, in the pristine focus of ancient just intonation, which further enhances the distinctive expressive qualities of all the ancient musical modes.
Originally written for 11 string chelys (tortoise shell form) lyre, in this live performance I extend the range of the more harp-like timbre of my 10 string lyre to 11 strings, simply by using an ocatve harmonic on the 4th string from the bottom.
Subscribe:
youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Klezfiddle1
Official Artist Links:
Official Website:
ancientlyre.com
Digital Music Artist Profiles:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/7Dx2vFEg8DmOJ5YCRm4A5v
iTunes & Apple Music:
itunes.apple.com/us/artist/michael-levy/id4324920
Amazon:
amzn.to/2zmJph3
Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com
Facebook Page:
facebook.com/beautifullyre
Twitter:
twitter.com/AncientLyre
Instagram:
instagram.com/mlevy1400bce
Patreon:
patreon.com/Michael_Levy_Ancient_Lyre_Music
