lyre Videos

Making an Anglo-Saxon lyre part 2

This is the second instalment, where I prepare my lyre body and glue the top on. I have condensed down 25 minutes on tape to the 10 allowed on youtube, please feel free to ask questions if you have any. When preparing glue I do not normally measure the proportions out, but if you are starting out keep to the book recipes to avoid delay. Note:This video series is to accompany the written notes in the Kit, but will also serve to aid anyone making one from scratch, or following my Lyre CD-rom ...

Author: michaeljking; Tags: Lyre Anglo Saxon luthier harp kit plans making

Song A Day # 361: Don't Soldier On Blindly

nothing but void for humanities crimes i am forever employed cleaning up messes vacuuming dirt ready with the net so no one gets hurt again don't soldier on blindly iffen you find me acting unkindly my tongue is made out of fire as i strum on my lyre and attempt to inspire on the ocean floor i collect sea shells in the highest mountains i ring liberty bells down in the valley in the shady glen they hide in doors in the morning when i come a gilded knife and a child at play it was another life ...

Author: therockcookiebottom; Tags: Don't Soldier On Blindly jonathan mann rock cookie bottom song day

HOS PGM 614 ""VOICE ON"" Stringway To Light (THE FIRST 3 AND HALF MINS) 12-27-09

HOS PGM 614

instruments FIRST BROADCAST : 7-Dec-2001 INTRO : Descending into the cold days and long nights around the winter solstice, our longing for warmth and need for light brings the wire-strung instrument family to the foreground. For centuries, the lyre, the harp, and the dulcimer have brought us comfort and expressed our deepest feelings. On this transmission of Hearts of Space, we once again visit the rich and brilliant world of wire-strung sounds on a program called STRINGWAY TO LIGHT. ... HOS " ...

Author: DavesVideos313; Tags: HOS Hearts of Space Steven Hill STRINGWAY TO LIGHT

"Hymn To The Muse" (2nd Century CE) by Mesomedes of Crete...

, leader of the delightful Muses, and you, skillful priest of our rites, son of Leto, Paean of Delos, be at my side'. (translation by JG Landels). It is played here on a lyre strikingly similar to the ancient Greek Kithara; the large wooden 7 string lyre favoured by the professional musicians of ancient Greece. The lyre I am playing, though, is in fact a replica (based on an illustration on the back of an ancient Jewish coin), of the 10 string Hebrew "Kinnor"; the ORIGINAL "Harp of King David ...

Author: Klezfiddle1; Tags: Ancient Greece ΥΜΝΟΣ ΜΟΥΣΑΣ ΜΕΣΟΜΗΔΟΥΣ Mesomedes Crete Sparta Delphi Athens Acropolis Parthenon Pyramids Roman Troy Lyre Lyra Kithara Harp Classics Homer Iliad Ἰλιάς Οδύσσεια Aristotle Plato Socrates Pythagoras Battle of Thermopylae King Leonidas

14 JUIN 2009 CONCERT DU THOLONET

CONCERT DE LA LYRE AIXOISE AU THOLONET 14 JUIN 2009 ... LA LYRE AIXOISE

Author: hengi1949; Tags: LA LYRE AIXOISE

"The First Delphic Hymn To Apollo" (c.138BCE)

earlier hymn, was probably written for the boys choir at the Pythian Games in 138 BC. I am using a lyre very similar to the ancient Greek Kithara; the large wooden lyre favoured by the professional musicians of ancient Greece. My lyre is, in fact, a replica (based on an illustration of the instrument on an ancient Jewish coin), of the ancient Jewish "Kinnor"; the large wooden lyre which King David himself played 3000 years ago, as he danced before the Ark of the Covenant, and which for ...

Author: Klezfiddle1; Tags: Ancient Greece Bouzouki Sparta Seikilos Delphi Athens Parthenon Pyramids Roman Acropolis Troy Lyre Lyra Kithara Harp Classics Homer Iliad Ἰλιάς Οδύσσεια Aristotle Plato Pythagoras early music