Michael Levy | The 'Guitar' of Ancient Greece! @MichaelLevyMusic | Uploaded July 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
The word 'guitar' is actually derived from the ancient Greek 'kithara'!
The kithara was the highly advanced, large wooden lyre favoured by only the true professional musicians of ancient Greece. The kithara reached its pinnacle of perfection during the “Golden Age” of Classical Antiquity, circa 5th century BCE.
The kithara was played to accompany dance, epic recitations, rhapsodies, odes, and lyric songs. It was also played solo at the receptions, banquets,
national games, and competitions of virtuosic skill!
Like the guitar, whose name from the kithara was derived, the kithara was perfect for accompanying song. Like the guitar, consonant harmonies could also be strummed on the kithara, by blocking specific strings with the left hand & strumming the open strings with the right hand!
As on the guitar, strings on the kithara can also be 'bent' to produce vibrato!
My recreated ancient Greek kithara was made in modern Greece
by Luthieros:
luthieros.com
My 2016 album which features this recreation of the ancient Greek kithara, "The Ancient Greek Kithara of Classical Antiquity", is available from all the usual digital music platforms, including Spotify, iTunes, Amazon & Apple Music. Lossless studio quality audio is also available from Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/the-ancient-greek-kithara-of-classical-antiquity
To hear countless hours more of my musical adventures in time travel, please also check out all my official artist links below:
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
The word 'guitar' is actually derived from the ancient Greek 'kithara'!
The kithara was the highly advanced, large wooden lyre favoured by only the true professional musicians of ancient Greece. The kithara reached its pinnacle of perfection during the “Golden Age” of Classical Antiquity, circa 5th century BCE.
The kithara was played to accompany dance, epic recitations, rhapsodies, odes, and lyric songs. It was also played solo at the receptions, banquets,
national games, and competitions of virtuosic skill!
Like the guitar, whose name from the kithara was derived, the kithara was perfect for accompanying song. Like the guitar, consonant harmonies could also be strummed on the kithara, by blocking specific strings with the left hand & strumming the open strings with the right hand!
As on the guitar, strings on the kithara can also be 'bent' to produce vibrato!
My recreated ancient Greek kithara was made in modern Greece
by Luthieros:
luthieros.com
My 2016 album which features this recreation of the ancient Greek kithara, "The Ancient Greek Kithara of Classical Antiquity", is available from all the usual digital music platforms, including Spotify, iTunes, Amazon & Apple Music. Lossless studio quality audio is also available from Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/the-ancient-greek-kithara-of-classical-antiquity
To hear countless hours more of my musical adventures in time travel, please also check out all my official artist links below:
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
