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How To Play "Hymn To The Muse" (2nd century CE), by Mesomedes of Crete! A studio quality recording of this piece can now be downloaded from my NEW ALBUM, "An Ancient Lyre" : www.cdbaby.com (also now available from Apple iTunes). Mesomedes of Crete was a Greek lyric poet and composer of the early 2nd century AD. More information can be found at: www.mlahanas.de "Hymn To The Muse" is written in the ancient Greek "Dorian" mode; EE on the white note of the piano - not to be confused with the ...

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How to play "The First Delphic Hymn To Apollo (c.138 BCE)! A studio quality recording of this piece can be heard on track 9 of my NEW ALBUM, "An Ancient Lyre": www.cdbaby.com For full details, visit: www.ancientlyre.com This is my latest "online lyre lesson", demonstrating how to play the famous "First Delphic Hymn to Apollo" - a precious surviving fragment of music, which is an amazing legacy from the mostly lost musical culture of ancient Greece! There are two Delphic Hymns that have been ...

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The latest in my series of "Online Lyre Lessons"! The piece discussed in this video can be heard on track 11 of my NEW ALBUM, "An Ancient Lyre": www.cdbaby.com In this video, I will demonstrate how to play one of the precious few fragments of surviving ancient Greek music! This haunting, almost dream-like fragment of melody was preserved in ancient Byzantine manuscripts (Conspectus codicum: V. Venetus Marcianus appl. cl. VI, saec. XIII-XIV N. Neapolitanus graecus III. C4, saec. XV F ...

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A clip of track 19, "Star of the County Down", from my NEW ALBUM, "The Northern Emerald - Traditional Irish Music": www.cdbaby.com I decided to experiment with 5-string banjo for several of the tracks on this album, after discovering that it was, in fact, the 5-string banjo, which was ORIGINALLY used in Ireland and not the "clanky" tenor banjo heard in tradtional Irish music sessions today !! The 5-string banjo was 1st introduced to Ireland from the USA in the 1840's, with Joel Sweeny's ...

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A clip from "Ancient Echoes" - Track 4 of "Instrumentals", by Domink Johnson (Sitar),& Michael Levy (Lyre & Fiddle). The complete track is availlable for instant download from: www.cdbaby.com Many thanks for watching!

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My NEW ALBUM, "The Klezmer Fiddle" is available from: www.cdbaby.com & Apple iTunes! This album is my attempt to recreate the wonderful sounds of the traditional Jewish Klezmer fiddle, which once wafted through the many Shtetls of Eastern Europe, prior to the ravages wrought on Eastern European Jewish musical culture by the Holocaust. The rather rustic "rough edges" in my fiddle playing, (which the classically trained violinist will no doubt detect), is simply a consequence of the fact that ...

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A clip of track 14, "The Frost Is All Over", from my NEW ALBUM, "The Northern Emerald - Traditional Irish Music": www.cdbaby.com I decided to experiment with 5-string banjo for several of the tracks on this album, after discovering that it was, in fact, the 5-string banjo, which was ORIGINALLY used in Ireland and not the "clanky" tenor banjo heard in tradtional Irish music sessions today !! The 5-string banjo was 1st introduced to Ireland from the USA in the 1840's, with Joel Sweeny's ...

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A clip from track 10,"The Cliffs of Moher", from NEW ALBUM, "The Northern Emerald - Traditional Irish Music": www.cdbaby.com I decided to experiment with 5-string banjo for several of the tracks on this album, after discovering that it was, in fact, the 5-string banjo, which was ORIGINALLY used in Ireland and not the "clanky" tenor banjo heard in tradtional Irish music sessions today !! The 5-string banjo was 1st introduced to Ireland from the USA in the 1840's, with Joel Sweeny's touring ...

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A clip of track 2, "Hewlett" (composed by Turlough O' Carolan), from my NEW ALBUM, "The Northern Emerald - Traditional Irish Music": www.cdbaby.com This album features my own unique arrangements of my favourite pieces of traditional irish music, played on mandolin, Celtic clawhammer-style 5-string banjo, and lyre... I decided to experiment with solo mandolin on several of the tracks (including this one), as for centuries in Traditional Irish Music Sessions, the mandolin's delicate, beautiful ...

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A clip of track 1, "She Moved Through the Fair", from my NEW ALBUM, "The Northern Emerald - Traditional Irish Music"...available now, from: www.cdbaby.com This mesmorisingly beautiful, ancient Irish Air, is uniquely arranged here, for an actual replica of the 3000 year old Lyre of King David! There is a fascinating LEGEND/MYTH, that the Celtic Harp is, in fact, a direct ancestor of the Lyre of the Ancient Hebrews, which was apparently introduced to Ireland 2600 years ago by Israelites who ...

Tags: She Moved Through The Fair Spancil Hill Polmabourne Dolmen Newgrange Ancient Passage Tomb Solstice Monolith Standing Stones Stone Henge Bronze Age Celts Celtic Irish Music Session Christy Mooore Pogues Guiness Wicklow Mountains Dublin Dubliners Derry Donegal Belfast Jig Reel Hornpipe Fields of Athenry