What Ancient Greek and Roman Music Sounded Like - A Beginner's Introduction
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I've made a few videos talking about certain aspects of Ancient Greek music theory and how they have come to influence music of later periods, but I figured it would be a worthwhile endeavour to offer a very basic introduction to the general sound of Ancient Greek and Roman music for those who may wonder what it was like. This video is meant to be a beginner's basic overview of the instruments and the general music theory in a very general and simplified scope. In later videos, I will delve into more complex aspects.
For those more interested in the subject, here is a wonderful lecture by the great Armand d'Angour, an absolute specialist in the subject:
• Ancient Greek Music, w...
Sources:
Ancient Greek Music: A New Technical History, Steven Hagel
Ancient Greek Music, Martin L. West - เพลง
FOLLOW UP VIDEO: How do we know what Ancient Roman music sounded like without any notated scores?
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AUDIO DEMONSTRATIONS OF ALL THE THREE TYPES OF MELODIES ANCIENT GREEK MELODIES (GENERA):
th-cam.com/video/3eWcj2GKRzo/w-d-xo.html
And here are quality performances of Greco-Roman music:
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I've made a few videos talking about certain aspects of Ancient Greek music theory and how they have come to influence music of later periods, but I figured it would be a worthwhile endeavour to offer a very basic introduction to the general sound of Ancient Greek and Roman music for those who may wonder what it was like. This video is meant to be a beginner's basic overview of the instruments and the general music theory in a very general and simplified scope. In later videos, I will delve into more complex aspects.
For those more interested in the subject, here is a wonderful lecture by the great Armand d'Angour, an absolute specialist in the subject:
th-cam.com/video/hMLjkH0mjgo/w-d-xo.html
Sources:
Ancient Greek Music: A New Technical History, Steven Hagel
Ancient Greek Music, Martin L. West
Please do an epic talking on Indian Music systems
When I first heard the sound of Aulos, I feel like texture of the sound is similar to the Medieval Shawm and Renaissance Crumhorn.
@@greygamertales1293Great comparison, they’re similar reed instruments
@@faryafaraji I kinda wish historical musical instruments can atleast come back in the mainstream classical orchestras rather than just staying confined to only traditional early music ensembles.
@@greygamertales1293Honestly yeah, usually the argument given is that older instruments often can’t match the same acoustic power; music was usually meant for smaller spaces in the Middle-Ages or Baroque, but at this point most performances use some form of microphone or amplification anyway
The most accurate greek acent I've ever heard from a non Greek guy.
Either he has stayed in Greece for a while, or Iranian has similar phonemes so it's easier for them to get the right sounds for Greek than some other foreigner
@@foljs5858I was a wedding photographer for 8 years here in Montréal, and if there’s a wedding here, it’s either Lebanese or a Greek one, that’s why haha
@@faryafaraji lol! and you did all the music studying too!!!
@@faryafaraji
Good on Montréal for allowing Lesbian weddings.
@@BBWahoo😂
Dude the greek speaking at the intro was so good... you sounded like one of us
he evev looks Greek, the only thing giving away a southern lineage is a shorter forehead
@@ivankontra3446 He does not look Greek.
Farya's finally coming out with the truth about lyres.
Lyres always gave me trust issues
@@faryafaraji,
If Alcibiades was a stringed instrument...
🤣
I didn't see anything about creepy Joe Biden in here?
Man, I love ancient history but know almost nothing about the history of ancient music. Videos like these are a rare treasure and you make the subject easy to understand and interesting. Thanks for making programs like this!
Coming from you it couldn’t be more of an honour man! Same thing for you; I always listen to your videos on Mesopotamia whenever I’m doing VFX on some of the videos for hours
@@faryafaraji next time please plus the right tuning... 😂😂😂😂😂... It will be very false in our ears
@@marinalypirou-bali7315
What right tuning you’re talking about? Is it a certain part of the video?
@@faryafaraji i mean. During Baroque era the tunninh waa 432. Today we ve been between 440-442 for A (La).
It's largely ignored, not just in regular history or history of art, but even as a part of musical education. Music history curricula at best include some instrumentation, the choirs in theatre and (a few) scales. Then they just sail past a couple thousands of roman world to arrive at pope Gregory and the end of early middle ages lol
Being a non-musician myself, I thank you for this education.
I’m honoured Blaine! My goal with these videos is to be accessible and aimed at non-musicians; history and culture buffs in general :)
Very informative as always, Syfilis!
Send my regards to Charikleia Ghonorreas, I hope everything went well with Dr. Papanikolaus
Oh I’m sorry to say Ghonorreas died, stabbed by Trichomoniasis of Clan Souvlakis
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@@faryafaraji but what about tzatzikis's grandson, Andreas Papadohatzigiannakopoulidakis ive heard he is a doctor in germany now and only visits his village Kammena Hoirina at summer
😂 omg I was hoping to find someone pointing out the names, but I wasn’t expecting the bit to keep going
Absolutely fascinating! I knew so little about the other two scales. I hope you'll cover more about this topic, particularly how you perform the scales in your songs.
Damn that was some good pronunciation at the beginning Farya ;)
Συνέχισε να κάνεις τόσο καλά βίντεο!
Man, I love the editing (or lack thereof) in your videos. The way you actually include pauses and little breaks of silence makes your videos seem so much human, natural, and less jarring. Don't change, brother.
As always nailing that greek accent
The intro was golden too XD
I’m so happy to see that in a previous episode you mentioned Southern Italy possibly having bagpipes and this time you mentioned the zampogna by name!
Speaking of pipes, he did not mentioned launeddas, still played to this day in Sardinia.
As a greek, the intro was hilarious😂
Bless our boi for dumbing it down for us amateur musical theorists and aspiring historians. Very thoughtfully executed introduction to the topic.
Farya, your explanations are so articulate and thorough, you should give a TED Talk.
Amazing video brother , as a greek it makes me proud when I see foreign people talking about our heritage, and just the amount of detail in the video is amazing, great work
This made me SO HAPPY! Thank you for existing !!!
Most informative video on TH-cam about ancient music! Great work!
Yeah, you got me! I was thinking all the time up until the end: "How the Caligula's little boot did he manage to make a TH-cam video from the ancient past!". Never crossed my mind that you might have used a green screen. You had me there!
Good video by the way.
Thank you once again for a great informative video!! As I was doing some uni research, I came across some information about the Greeks who were performing war dances (Pyrrichios?) on aulos music, and they considered that those who know how to dance, know how to fight (because they know the dance or Ares, as it was written in the Illiad). Later on I found out the Persians, during the Achaemenid Empire, had a similar war dance according to Xenophon`s Anabasis. Later on the Parthians used hollow drums covered in bells on the battlefield to scare their enemies. I think it must have been quite the experience to actually perform a war dance or hear this kind of "war music" (and not only!) back then.
this is the first non music video you've made! I really liked it! thank you my man.
Absolutely impressive. Was blown away by your depth of knowledge!
This is absolutely amazing! I’ve enjoyed every second of this video! ❤❤
Just finished watching the whole video. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks
Amazing Video! I find myself always coming back to your Greek/Roman ambient music videos (it's how I found you) and I love learning some of the context behind those melodies. Thanks so much!
Thanks alot Nick!
Very informative and well explained. Thank you Farya.
Farya, you are just an incredible person! Even not knowing English very well, I am very pleased to listen to you. Good luck to you and development of your creativity. ❤
Who are you?
I AM FROM ANCIENT GREECE!
Great sense of humor as always Farya. Thanks for the lecture!
it's interesting that you think native american when you think pan pipes because I think greek, I didn't even know native american's had pan pipes
_El Condor Pasa_
@@fuferito you know what, now that I hear it, it does sound very Aztec or Inca to me
@@celtofcanaanesurix2245 they're big in peruvian music still to this day. There was even a South Park episode about Peruvian pan flute bands
Your greek accent is great keep up with the good work
The timing on this couldn't have been better...to pass the time waiting for my Saz (or Tambouras) to arrive from Greece I was looking at Luthieros's website and researching the Pandoura and Lyre wondering how it would really sound like. I gotta check out that guy's work!
I also love how you added the cicadas chirping in the background, you know that sounds is everywhere!
Incredible video as always, aderfe. Can't wait for more
Thanks alot Demetrios! Where did you buy your tambouras from? I like to keep a list of musical stores that shop outside of Greece :)
I'm so glad I came across your channel. My nerdy little heart loves learning new things and gaining new insights here.
I really appreciate the work you put into all your videos. Thank you so much. ❤
Thank you for covering this. I've been writing a fiction piece with influences from the ancient world, and I had trouble describing the Greek-influenced music contained within. This was very informative.
I hope to see some of your music on Spotify soon because I just love it. But I understand if you do not publish it there. I've heard of some issues creators have with that platform.
Thanks alot! As for Spotify I periodically put my most popular tracks there, but putting music up there is very costly price-wise, and as of now, the revenue from Spotify doesn’t match back the cost it takes me to put it there, though that might change later
Great video! If there's an even more in depth explanation of this video with longer musical examples I'd be interested! Also maybe some of the archaeological evidence that even informs us of how the ancients played their music would be cool!
Highly valuable and educational video, thank you, keep up!
Would appreciate a part 2 on this…very informative. I’m from the balkans, so instrumentals is the key to my soul.
Man this is great. I've been wanting to get a lyre in order to compose music to latin poems and this video is actually extremely helpful. Keep it up friend, hope to see more! Di tibi faveant!
Thank you for an excellent video professor. Love this stuff!
Love the dedication to the subject matter!
This was a very interesting video: I see so many parallels with Indian classical music! Especially about the different types of modes, not always using all seven notes and having melodic complexity over harmonic.
Deares Farya, your educational video abou ancient music are really invaluable and to me (historical novel writer) very very precccccious. Thanks also for the source!
And your continued support is just as invaluable to me Vladimiro, grazie for sticking around so long!
Superb video sir.
I adore the cultures, histories and music of the Medieval + Ancient Mediterranean / Near east.
Super useful, thank you! Best wishes from Argentina!
We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled.
All jokes aside, great video as usual. Just out of curiosity: ever considered making a video on Mesopotamian music particulièrement?
Absolutely, I’m thinking of doing one in the same style for what we know of Mesopotamian music!
@@faryafaraji sumerian music please
@@GannicusMisteriosdeHonduras Mesopotamian music includes sumerian music lol
@@Rotisiv I know , it also includes Babylonian, Akkadian, etc but I'm interested in sumerian music
Love your work, keep it up!
So you are another kind of "lyre" ?
Thank you so much, for helping us rediscover the richness of the music of antiquity!
Fantastic explanation and really cool presentation.😀
EXCELLENT introduction, excellent topic. 😄👌🎶
Thanks alot!
Bravo. This is the type of video ancient music needs in order to gain a bit more fame and popularity, which it highly deserves :)
Such an informative video! Thank you for putting it out! It would be very interesting if you made a video covering some aspects of Greek music evolution! Because as you demonstrated, this type of music still exists in traditional Greek music. For example the sounds of the bouzouki, the kanonaki, the santouri, and the ways they're played still hold technique from the past. It would be nice to see how things changed in folk music within Greece.
Thank you for your very inspiring videos ! Really very very interesting food for thoughts !❤🎉
What a fantastic explanation. Thank you!
Keep on educating the rest of us. Mpravo! :-)
Very informative video, interesting to see the interaction with neighbouring civilisation's music! In sardinian traditional music there's an instrument I think is directly derived (or maybe it developed around the same time) from the aulos/tibia, which are the "Launeddas" that have a very similar sound and are still played today in folk music. There's a couple of videos on TH-cam if anyone wants to check it out.
Pure gold! Thank you!
Highly educational, thank you so much!
I admire so much your knowledge. I'm not a musician, but I can understand what you say. Congratulations for your explanations!
You are a truly great teacher!
Great.
Props for providing sources.
We need more of this type of content. Breath of fresh air in this era of 2 min 2 chord pop songs.
This was such an informative video! Thank you! Can't wait for your vid on the disappearance of microtonality, because I'm still a bit confused as to the difference between the enharmonic and chromatic modes :(
That was a very clear and sophisticated explanation of what is in fact the main source of both European and Middle Eastern music. I will try to use in the research of our living history group,,accidentally we are beginning to give music a more prominent place in our historical events and your information will help us bigtime.
Brother.. the Greek accent is spot on… not even actors/comedians/impressionists who work on their accents get it. Lol ive been mimicking my dad and uncles my entire life… another fantastic and informative video… i know what YT channel ill be binging on my flight to Greece in 2 weeks
Thank you for the samples!
I haven't laughed so hard in 1 month during the intro.
Great video and great channel! You might want to look up Nikos Xanthoulis and his analysis and playing of the 7 string lyre. Very informative concerning the possibilities of the lyres, particularly with harmonics.
This is one of your best videos yet 🎉😊
Thanks so much man!
@@faryafaraji Keep making the awesome music - it's time we had more musicians like you come on the stage!
May I kindly request permission to use all your music in my videos? (Only the ones I like)
Also man, I give you a challenge - How about you film yourself in the City of Babylon (like a backdrop) signing a Babylonain song or something? The music of Mesopotamia is so mysterious, it'd be cool if we can see that :P
Jia, I am impressed by your knowledge of music, εύγε σου
Excellent! I hope you will make a video on ancient Greek and/or Middle East rhythms, many of which survive until today in the Balkans and the elsewhere. Things like 13/8, 11/8, 7/8 etc
Check out my video on Usul in the Epic Talking playlist, I cover the subject there :)
Can't put everything in words,so i'd just exort the thickest thanks for the quality content you are putting out there.
TLDR i love history
Sent this over to some friends . Hope it makes it into their music
Excellent presentation!
I've been waiting for this video since a long time ☺️ now it's finally here and btw Farya you look like a deserted Persian immortal in Corinth. 😂
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I love your channel and all this information to learn. I study Ancient Greek, but I don’t play music but I appreciate the ancient sounds. The music reflects the language, Ancient Greek is a rich complex language just like the notes and music.
This is hellllaugh interesting, good video
Είσαι απίστευτα ταλαντούχος ρε Farya! Ειλικρινά!
Honestly your work is quite outstanding
Thanks alot Apostolis
@@faryafaraji Thank you kindly for educating people my brother!
You are doing a wonderful job, you are unique here on youtube thanks for your content. Ps: your appearance is similar to that of Persian kings very cool
This is great!!!
I happened on your channel because I love ancient history. I also love music, but know nothing about the theory, history, or composition of music. I wanted to thank you for teaching me so much already. Plus you are funny.
Thanks!
Thanks alot :)
Good presentation
Please do more on this
"Tzatzikis Protochlamydias"
😆😆😆
I wasn't ready.
Looking pretty fancy there, mate
Very interesting! 😁
Syfilis Spanakopitas and Bilbamesh need to start a band. If nothing else, they should reappear during the intros of relevant videos. And yes, You were right. This entire time I thought you were sitting along the road to Aphrodite's Watch in Kythera during the Peloponnesian War and not a green screen.
Another cultural version of Farya to add to the collection. By the way interesting video
Thats great, thank you
Good speech, sir.
Amazing :)
Looks like AC Odyssey LOL
Can't wait for the next videos on this, it was very informative
In India also during Gupta era( as u can see in the coins,artifacts) harp was used. It would be interesting to have a music on Gupta era music.
What about the similarities and differences of Byzantine music with Ancient Greek and ancient Roman music?
Ps. Great video, keep them going!
Great idea!
Byzantine music today still carries some of the traditions from ancient Greek and Roman music mixed in with other foreign influences throughout their history.
very interesting, thanks
Dude, that drip is awsome.
Excellent video,
love the discussion and agree about lyres. There has been ceramic pottery found from the Tumulus Celtic culture from the iron and Bronze Age of Europe depicting pretty colorful examples of lyres and proto zithers. Including possibly a double corse 10 string example. There is also the couple of bridges found in Scotland from the Iron Age, one being flat, possibly for bowing? It’s speculated that the Welsh crwth as early as around 600 AD may of been bowed, as well as the closely related Greek and European chrotta being bowed earlier on. I agree, it seems to be of Steppe origin, in what intervals did it travel and arrive by exchange and migration and how early?
Thanks for the video:)
Extraordinarily interesting! I've often wondered what classical music sounded like. A question, though. I believe that a violin like instrument was found in Egypt, which presumably included a bow. Of course, microtones are available using violin type instruments.great video!