I find it fascinating that so many people are skeptics when it comes to any Biblical archaeological texts and discoveries and assertions, but you know if this was "ancient Druid music" or "ancient Hindu music of the Bhagavad Gita" or "ancient Chinese Taoist music" or any other ancient interpretation/discovery of music, everybody would simply say "Wow that's so cool" with no scholarly skepticism whatsoever.
We're basicaly culturally conditioned to hate and distrust the Bible. Other Religions are Beautiful and way better than the Abraham Faiths, we are told. Its a bias that is designed mainly to tear down Christian influence in our society.
Um yeah, that's how orientalism works. It's the back bone of all explorations into Africa and basically the entire colonial endeavour. At least the beginning of it.
this is absolutely amazing, i have been wanting to know since i was a kid what did the psalms sound like and was always excited when it said to the chief musician. that was absolutely beautiful.
Check out the amazing recording by the San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble, "Ancient Echoes - Music from the Time of Jesus and Jerusalem's Second Temple" - their rendition of Suzanne Haik Vantoura's interpretation of what just might have been the original melody once sang to the Priestley Blessing, once sang during the ancient Temple services is breathtakingly beautiful!
I have a degree in Bible, and I'm a professional musician, so this is fascinating. I'm just skeptical as to why the ancient Isrealites sang music that sounds an awful lot like it works on the Western 12-tone scale. I'm not saying it couldn't have happened, and I haven't done any research on it (indeed, the Western scale had to come from somewhere), but did King David really write songs that sound like the soundtracks of American movies? Like, did he really use our exact scale, when really no other traditional music from ancient peoples on earth did? I find that quite incredible.
The musical scales are based on naturally occuring principles of physics. The overtones of bass notes have the same mathematical relationship of the Fibonacci series. That is not to say that Suzanne's conclusions are 100% correct. I am not sure if she uses the correct mode, for example. However the result is interesting, compelling and deeply spiritual.
I am a professional musician and historian as well. There’s no way this would have been the melody of the original psalms. You are correct that what we are hearing is 90% westernized with 10% (modern) middle eastern influence.
Behold the Bridegroom comes at midnight. And blessed is the man whom He shall find watching. And again unworthy is the servant whom He shall heedless. Beware therefore o my soul do not be weighted down by sleep. Lest you be given up to death and lest you be shut out of the kingdom. But rouse yourself crying holy holy holy art thou o God. Through the Theotokos have mercy on us
@@evereststevens7034 Midnight doesn't mean midnight as you think, midnight here is a figure of speech. It means when you least expect. Because, at "midnight" people are fast asleep. That's why the word 'watching" is used. A present progressive, always having your lamps filled with oil, which means be living in the Spirit. Talk God talk, standing on the strength of God's promises.
Thank you for sharing this! Very fascinating! I've been trying to find out what music in biblical times sounded like. Specifically during the time of David's Psalms.
I'm not clear from this. Was an actual music manuscript found? I've been intrigued to what the Psalms may have originally sounded like, but don't see how that's possible unless the written music was found.
Please see my detailed website article on this: ancientlyre.com/the-original-3000-year-old-music-of-the-bible-revealed In short, according to Suzanne Haik Vantoura, the mysterious Te Amim accents notated above the entire text of the Hebrew Bible, preserved a transcription of hand gestures (cheironomy), a form of musical notation whereby specific hand gestures represented specific changes in the pitch of a melody - cheironomy gestures can be found in ancient Egyptian art, depicting cheironomists (the equivalent of a music conducter) stood in front of musicians, guiding them through the melody with these very specific hand gestures. A form of cheironomy actually survives today in Egypt, where it is still practiced by the Coptic Church!
In the word of the Lord he teaches with one clear factor and a lesson for all. Forgiveness. Forgiveness in all forms and to all, living or dead or neither existence from earth.
eu tenho pesquisado música dos salmos pra edificação e isso é fascinante. espero poder pesquisar mais sobre isso. tenho dificuldade de encontrar os salmos cantados ou musicalizados de forma mais próxima possível de como deveria ser, isso foi um achado.
This, and others in this series by Michael Levy, are quite beautiful. And, I realize he was not the music historian/archeologist who recreated the Psalms of David as they were sung in the ancient Jewish temple. However, I'm not convinced that the performance of music, via instruments of that time especially, would have sounded this good. I'd be interested in the comments of other listeners on this topic.
Jay Corby - thanks for your comments! The main reason for sharing this haunting music on my channel was indeed to open up discussion on Haik-Vantoura's little known musical revelation, which if true, provides us with the first true art music of antiquity, over 1000 years older than the complete "Epitaph of Seikilos" ancient Greek melody...and indeed, may even provide us with melodies composed by King David himself! Although I get lost in the intricate musicological detail of Haik-Vantoura's deciphering key, even though I get the basic concept that the Te Amin accents, (according to her theory) were, in fact, transcriptions of ancient cheironomy hand gestures which indicated the rise and fall of musical intervals, for me, the 'proof' of her theory must lie in these beautiful melodies revealed by that theory. So perfectly do these melodies both emphasise and add meaning to the words of the text, the simplest explanation must surely be that both melodies and the original ancient Hebrew text were composed at the same time by the same person?
I would very much like to believe that what you state is indeed the case. The idea that King David himself, whose historical existence has been disputed even by some Jewish scholars, composed both words and music of the Psalms is enticing at the very least. Personally, I love the Psalter and chant quite a bit of it ( Byzantine ) in my Orthodox Christian parish here in the USA. There is evidence that the roots of early Byzantine chant may lie in both the worship music of the last temple in Jerusalem and some elements of ancient Greek melodies.The Coptic Christians of Egypt claim that their liturgical hymns are derived from those of the pharaohs. One in particular entitled Golgotha, sung on Holy Friday in all Coptic churches, supposedly was used while the ancient kings of Egypt were being embalmed and carried to their tombs. I speak of the melody of this piece, not its words.
Thanks so much for sharing the haunting melody to Golgotha - really fascinating! If Suzanne Haik-Vantoura was correct, there is also an ancient Egyptian connection to the Te Amim accents in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew bible - she argued that these accents were transcriptions of ancient cheironomy hand gestures; cheironomy was an ancient form of musical notation practiced in ancient Egypt, whereby specific hand gestures represented specific changes in the pitch of a melody (there are many ancient illustrations of cheironomists performing these musical hand gestures in front of ancient Egyptian harpists). I believe some form of cheironomy survives even to the present day, as practiced by the Coptic Church? The existence of musical notation in the Hebrew bible so similar to that practiced in ancient Egypt certainly seems to add weight to the biblical stories relating to the Hebrews in Egypt? This fascinating musical phenomenon could also, of course, also be just as well explained by the pre-existing Egyptian connections with Canaan, as I argue in my website blog on Suzanne Haik-Vantoura.
Michael, I am so glad that I discovered your series on ancient musical forms and instruments. You are immersed in this work, which is undoubtedly more pleasure than work, and have opened my mind and eyes to the possibility than we really do know what ancient music sounded like. For many years I longed to explore this area of cultural importance, but without the internet ( Google/ TH-cam particularly ) it was extremely difficult to find much information on this subject. We have been richly blessed in modern times with what is available at the simple touch of 'keys'. I hope others are as motivated and excited about your endeavors as am I.
I agree with you, the Hebrew music and its origin is extremely wonderful, its buelleza, characteristic sound and what it represents in the spiritual field is worthy of the learning of the musicians.
I have been studying the cantillation system for 10 years. How did the 12-octave system get from Jerusalem to the modern world? I know the Levites used it. Also, how did they come by this? It is too specific to say that it came out of nowhere.
Псалом 113 1. (По слав. 112). Алилуия. Хвалете слуги Господни, Хвалете името Господно. 2. Да бъде името Господно благословено От сега и до века. 3. От изгряването на слънцето до захождането му Името Господно е за хваление. 4. Господ е високо над всичките народи; Неговата слава е над небесата. 5. Кой е като Иеова нашия Бог, Който, макар седалището Му и да е на високо, 6. Пак се снизхождава да преглежда Небето и земята, 7. Въздига сиромаха от пръстта. И възвишава немотния от бунището, 8. За да го тури да седне с първенци, Да! с първенците на людете Му, - 9. Който настанява в дома бездетната, И я прави весела майка на деца. Алилуия.
want it to be played at my funeral! I believe that jesus christ the messiah died for my sins and Jesus Christ is risen HalleluYAH read the bible Isaiah 53
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I am skeptical. How do they know the frequency of the notes? In the Middle East today, much of the music does not utilize the Western twelve tone scale. And even if this did use our scale, where is the musical notation? What note is a Bb or and F#? Musical notation has evolved over the centuries to what we have today, and even today's manuscript is subject to interpretation. If played exactly as written, music sounds very mechanical, and needs to be interpreted. If we found brass instruments, and some written record of the notes in the harmonic series, or flutes with holes which would define the notes, we would still need that description of how those notes were played, and the rhythm.
i must say this is beautiful but i highly doubt this is how the music sounded in the holy temple . it probably had aspects of this in it but sung in a Yemenite way
Hi - I am based in the UK...in a tiny village & also I can't drive to regularly do live performance events, so if it was not for my website, TH-cam & Spotify, nobody would even know my music existed!
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It is fairly logical that since the first Christians were, in fact, Jews, that the earliest Christian music would preserve an aural memory of the original music once performed in the ancient Temple services in Jerusalem.
The taamim don't correspond to single notes like this shows if you go to any orthodox synagogue on sabbath they read it much differently. Each taam represents a series of notes. This is wrong
Hallelu Yah. "Hallelu" is the imperative plural form of the verb "Hallal," which means "to praise." "Yah" is a contraction of God's proper name. Thus the phrase, "Hallelu Yah" means "praise the Lord."
Many new comments To a. 7 year post.. Of which Mr David Levi will have a hand full to answer. Smart questions.. Sounds quite Gregorian.. there is a vid out on y.t. of a modern(old sounding) guitar interpretation. Of similar music.
After reading article about her book "Music of the Bible Revealed" , it was disputed by many musicologist . WIth prenotion that incompatible with tradition and history of said times . But it is quite fun to decipher another meaning of the text that become melody .
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That's kind of rubbish on my part, but I can't help thinking that former French president Sárközy's name means "out of the mud" and he became a president (almost a prince).
According to Wikipedia: "The psalms were written from the time of the Israelite conquest of Canaan to the post-exilic period and the book was probably compiled and edited into its present form during the post-exilic period in the 5th century BC." - written at least 3000 years ago and compiled about 2,500 years ago.
How Suzanne Haik Vantoura deciphered the most appropriate mode of the melodic line which accompanied each line of Hebrew text, was to use the specific accent and meaning of the original Hebrew text as the key to discover the most appropriate mode - only the best fitting mode would best bring out the meaning & emphasis to the original Hebrew text which the original melody once accompanied.
This is what just might be the original music of the Psalms of David! Music was actually attached to the entire textvof the Hebrew Bible, not just the Psalms and sang during the services in the Temple of Jerusalem, both in the days of Solomon and later, when the Templexwas rebuilt by Herod. It is of course, Jewish music - but these would have been maybe the actual melodies Jesus heard during the Temple services...if only we knew for certain, that the 'Te Amim' accents preserving these melodies were indeed, Levitical in origin... If
The Mesoretic text is a copy of the bible from less than 1000 years ago. all this signifies is how Germanic Jews in the late middle ages sung the psalms. It can not provide any legitimate info as to how David sung them.
This isn't entirely accurate and is a misconception. We at least know that the modern Masoretic texts are practically identical to at least 1st to 4th Century variants. See The En-Gedi Scroll, for example.
Unfortunately, in these old 1976 arrangements by Suzanne Haik Vantoura, the concept of 'historically informed' performance was pretty much in its infancy and the singers lapsed automatically into their operatic trained vibrato with even more inappropriate orchestral accompaniment to what might have been the original 3000 year old music of the Hebrew Bible. Much more authentic-sounding arrangements of some of Suzanne Haik Vantoura's work, evoking how the Levitical Ensemble might actually have sounded, can be heard in the CD (available on Amazon) by the San Antonio Vocal Ensemble - "Ancient Echoes - Music from the Time of Jesus and Jerusalem's Second Temple"
HAHAHAHAHA , how funy you are , you mean Beethoven style in around 3 thousands year for an Arab look like community !! pfffff Ashekanzi , this is a Psalm not Germany music
they just followed the method of Susanne Haïk Vantoura. this method works for every psalm and other part with cantilene marks. it gives satisfactory music. This can't be by accident. If it were by accident, it would work for the one psalm, but not for the other, but in fact her method works for EVERY psalm. The point is that we, humans haven't changed in how we listen to music. Yes, we develop in our live, depending on to what kind of music we listen, but in essence we are all the same creatures. So in essence we will recognise a musical melody as logic, or unlogic in a very same way as they did thousands of years ago. Look to a musical orchestra. Many, MANY instruments are just a further developed form of musical instruments that existed even long before king David
@@christianityistrue777 sorry, i've made a mistake, i wanted to say that when we listen to the chant, the way they sing, is very similar to the way catholics sing
Thumb pic⬇️ Oh yea I see it now. I took a better look Eyes old. The back row ( All doing it) With pagan sun worship Triangle hand symbol I thought they in back Hold ing trumpet
Although it developed during several centuries, Gregorian chant originally stems from the chant of Synagogues. There's also a stunning similarity between the Jewish prayer for the dead and the beginning of the Gradual Haec dies.
Besides, Arabic music seems to have been influenced by Indian music and may be a late (relatively!) development. We don't know what the general Semitic music sounded like 3000 years ago.
I find it fascinating that so many people are skeptics when it comes to any Biblical archaeological texts and discoveries and assertions, but you know if this was "ancient Druid music" or "ancient Hindu music of the Bhagavad Gita" or "ancient Chinese Taoist music" or any other ancient interpretation/discovery of music, everybody would simply say "Wow that's so cool" with no scholarly skepticism whatsoever.
April maybe because Jew's history is so mythically incredible and gave birth to the 3 most powerful religions in Earth... (?)
We're basicaly culturally conditioned to hate and distrust the Bible. Other Religions are Beautiful and way better than the Abraham Faiths, we are told. Its a bias that is designed mainly to tear down Christian influence in our society.
Um yeah, that's how orientalism works. It's the back bone of all explorations into Africa and basically the entire colonial endeavour. At least the beginning of it.
@@nareshjames1686 The term for what you described is "Romanism". everything that corrupted Christianity started at Rome. Christianity was Romanized.
Well said sister
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this is absolutely amazing, i have been wanting to know since i was a kid what did the psalms sound like and was always excited when it said to the chief musician. that was absolutely beautiful.
Check out the amazing recording by the San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble, "Ancient Echoes - Music from the Time of Jesus and Jerusalem's Second Temple" - their rendition of Suzanne Haik Vantoura's interpretation of what just might have been the original melody once sang to the Priestley Blessing, once sang during the ancient Temple services is breathtakingly beautiful!
Incredibly transcendent and beautiful. Thank you.
I have a degree in Bible, and I'm a professional musician, so this is fascinating. I'm just skeptical as to why the ancient Isrealites sang music that sounds an awful lot like it works on the Western 12-tone scale. I'm not saying it couldn't have happened, and I haven't done any research on it (indeed, the Western scale had to come from somewhere), but did King David really write songs that sound like the soundtracks of American movies? Like, did he really use our exact scale, when really no other traditional music from ancient peoples on earth did? I find that quite incredible.
Great question ⁉️
The musical scales are based on naturally occuring principles of physics. The overtones of bass notes have the same mathematical relationship of the Fibonacci series. That is not to say that Suzanne's conclusions are 100% correct. I am not sure if she uses the correct mode, for example. However the result is interesting, compelling and deeply spiritual.
I agree. That was my first response. A very beautiful song but quite Medieval in character.
I am a professional musician and historian as well. There’s no way this would have been the melody of the original psalms. You are correct that what we are hearing is 90% westernized with 10% (modern) middle eastern influence.
@richardsmith2289 yeah, I was thinking some of the Latin Georgian chants, beautiful but way later than David
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Yes sir!
Behold the Bridegroom comes at midnight. And blessed is the man whom He shall find watching. And again unworthy is the servant whom He shall heedless. Beware therefore o my soul do not be weighted down by sleep. Lest you be given up to death and lest you be shut out of the kingdom. But rouse yourself crying holy holy holy art thou o God. Through the Theotokos have mercy on us
@@evereststevens7034 Midnight doesn't mean midnight as you think, midnight here is a figure of speech. It means when you least expect. Because, at "midnight" people are fast asleep.
That's why the word 'watching" is used. A present progressive, always having your lamps filled with oil, which means be living in the Spirit.
Talk God talk, standing on the strength of God's promises.
@@wendellpeters5083 it’s a hymn from the bridegroom orthros bro. It’s a poem
@@evereststevens7034 And it's beautiful. But do you understand what I said?
Beautiful, soothing, and relaxing. Thank You very much for sharing.
The hallelujah at the end have me full body chills ❤❤❤❤
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Thank you for sharing this! Very fascinating! I've been trying to find out what music in biblical times sounded like. Specifically during the time of David's Psalms.
Laurie Bell this is not what the psalms sounded like
@@nima9452 how do you know?
@@citizenworld8094 parece muito com os cantos gregorianos, ele simplesmente coringou.
I'm not clear from this. Was an actual music manuscript found? I've been intrigued to what the Psalms may have originally sounded like, but don't see how that's possible unless the written music was found.
Please see my detailed website article on this:
ancientlyre.com/the-original-3000-year-old-music-of-the-bible-revealed
In short, according to Suzanne Haik Vantoura, the mysterious Te Amim accents notated above the entire text of the Hebrew Bible, preserved a transcription of hand gestures (cheironomy), a form of musical notation whereby specific hand gestures represented specific changes in the pitch of a melody - cheironomy gestures can be found in ancient Egyptian art, depicting cheironomists (the equivalent of a music conducter) stood in front of musicians, guiding them through the melody with these very specific hand gestures.
A form of cheironomy actually survives today in Egypt, where it is still practiced by the Coptic Church!
@@MichaelLevyMusic see Mr Levy respond .. his does that . Kind of him.. this comment is months old.
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In the word of the Lord he teaches with one clear factor and a lesson for all. Forgiveness. Forgiveness in all forms and to all, living or dead or neither existence from earth.
eu tenho pesquisado música dos salmos pra edificação e isso é fascinante. espero poder pesquisar mais sobre isso. tenho dificuldade de encontrar os salmos cantados ou musicalizados de forma mais próxima possível de como deveria ser, isso foi um achado.
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This, and others in this series by Michael Levy, are quite beautiful. And, I realize he was not the music historian/archeologist who recreated the Psalms of David as they were sung in the ancient Jewish temple. However, I'm not convinced that the performance of music, via instruments of that time especially, would have sounded this good. I'd be interested in the comments of other listeners on this topic.
Jay Corby - thanks for your comments! The main reason for sharing this haunting music on my channel was indeed to open up discussion on Haik-Vantoura's little known musical revelation, which if true, provides us with the first true art music of antiquity, over 1000 years older than the complete "Epitaph of Seikilos" ancient Greek melody...and indeed, may even provide us with melodies composed by King David himself!
Although I get lost in the intricate musicological detail of Haik-Vantoura's deciphering key, even though I get the basic concept that the Te Amin accents, (according to her theory) were, in fact, transcriptions of ancient cheironomy hand gestures which indicated the rise and fall of musical intervals, for me, the 'proof' of her theory must lie in these beautiful melodies revealed by that theory. So perfectly do these melodies both emphasise and add meaning to the words of the text, the simplest explanation must surely be that both melodies and the original ancient Hebrew text were composed at the same time by the same person?
I would very much like to believe that what you state is indeed the case. The idea that King David himself, whose historical existence has been disputed even by some Jewish scholars, composed both words and music of the Psalms is enticing at the very least. Personally, I love the Psalter and chant quite a bit of it ( Byzantine ) in my Orthodox Christian parish here in the USA. There is evidence that the roots of early Byzantine chant may lie in both the worship music of the last temple in Jerusalem and some elements of ancient Greek melodies.The Coptic Christians of Egypt claim that their liturgical hymns are derived from those of the pharaohs. One in particular entitled Golgotha, sung on Holy Friday in all Coptic churches, supposedly was used while the ancient kings of Egypt were being embalmed and carried to their tombs. I speak of the melody of this piece, not its words.
Thanks so much for sharing the haunting melody to Golgotha - really fascinating! If Suzanne Haik-Vantoura was correct, there is also an ancient Egyptian connection to the Te Amim accents in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew bible - she argued that these accents were transcriptions of ancient cheironomy hand gestures; cheironomy was an ancient form of musical notation practiced in ancient Egypt, whereby specific hand gestures represented specific changes in the pitch of a melody (there are many ancient illustrations of cheironomists performing these musical hand gestures in front of ancient Egyptian harpists).
I believe some form of cheironomy survives even to the present day, as practiced by the Coptic Church?
The existence of musical notation in the Hebrew bible so similar to that practiced in ancient Egypt certainly seems to add weight to the biblical stories relating to the Hebrews in Egypt?
This fascinating musical phenomenon could also, of course, also be just as well explained by the pre-existing Egyptian connections with Canaan, as I argue in my website blog on Suzanne Haik-Vantoura.
Michael, I am so glad that I discovered your series on ancient musical forms and instruments. You are immersed in this work, which is undoubtedly more pleasure than work, and have opened my mind and eyes to the possibility than we really do know what ancient music sounded like. For many years I longed to explore this area of cultural importance, but without the internet ( Google/ TH-cam particularly ) it was extremely difficult to find much information on this subject. We have been richly blessed in modern times with what is available at the simple touch of 'keys'. I hope others are as motivated and excited about your endeavors as am I.
I agree with you, the Hebrew music and its origin is extremely wonderful, its buelleza, characteristic sound and what it represents in the spiritual field is worthy of the learning of the musicians.
As an Hebrew mother tongue speaker he sing it correctly, your channel is awesome Mr. Levy
I have been studying the cantillation system for 10 years. How did the 12-octave system get from Jerusalem to the modern world? I know the Levites used it. Also, how did they come by this? It is too specific to say that it came out of nowhere.
Псалом 113
1. (По слав. 112). Алилуия. Хвалете слуги Господни, Хвалете името Господно.
2. Да бъде името Господно благословено От сега и до века.
3. От изгряването на слънцето до захождането му Името Господно е за хваление.
4. Господ е високо над всичките народи; Неговата слава е над небесата.
5. Кой е като Иеова нашия Бог, Който, макар седалището Му и да е на високо,
6. Пак се снизхождава да преглежда Небето и земята,
7. Въздига сиромаха от пръстта. И възвишава немотния от бунището,
8. За да го тури да седне с първенци, Да! с първенците на людете Му, -
9. Който настанява в дома бездетната, И я прави весела майка на деца. Алилуия.
May hashem bless. This is so holy
This was like stepping back into the past ......
want it to be played at my funeral!
I believe that jesus christ the messiah died for my sins
and Jesus Christ is risen HalleluYAH
read the bible Isaiah 53
Beautiful voice. Wonderful language.
These are just the notes of Yerushalayim Shel Zahav which is a European Basque melody.
May the name of God Almighty be praised in all the earth,I am not Jewish but I do know that God Almighty made us all in his image,So I pray that God give me the strength to live my life in a way that brings Honour to Him.
In this specific instance I doubt this is the melody they used. It sounds too much like european music. It doesn’t sound near eastern at all
That's good point
True
¡Haleluyah! ¡Alaben, servidores de YHVH, alaben el nombre de YHVH!
2. ¡Bendito sea el nombre de YHVH, desde ahora y por siempre!
3. De la salida del sol hasta su ocaso, sea loado el nombre de YHVH!
4. ¡Excelso sobre todas las naciones YHVH, por encima de los cielos su gloria!
5. ¿Quién como YHVH, nuestro Dios, que se sienta en las alturas,
6. y se abaja para ver los cielos y la tierra?
7. Él levanta del polvo al desvalido, del estiércol hace subir al pobre,
8. para sentarle con los príncipes, con los príncipes de su pueblo.
9. Él asienta a la estéril en su casa, madre de hijos jubilosa.
Regardless of whether or not she was correct, this music is beautiful, and spiritually very uplifting! Thank you!
This music style is not from thousands of years ago.
Oran Fine and you know that how?
@@junek.williams5603 it sounds very germanic for its time.
Halelu-YAH
Halelu 'abdei YHVH
Halelu eth-shem YHVH
Yehi shem YHVH meborac
Me'athah ve'ad-'olam
Mimmizraj-shemesh 'ad-mebo'o
Mehullal shem YHVH
Ram 'al-col-goim YHVH
'Al hashamaim kebodo
Mi caYHVH Eloheinu
Hammagebbihi lashabeth
Hammashpili lireoth
Bashamaim uba'arets
Meqimi me'afar dal
Me'ashepoth yarim abeyon
Lehoshibi 'im-nedibim
'Im nedibei 'ammo
Moshibi 'aqereth habbaith
Em-habbanim semejah.
Halelu-YAH
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Read the Word for yourself, not only relying on others for guidance. Pray for guidance.Yahushua/Yeshua - His Hebrew name who is usually called (Jesus) taught to keep the whole Word. Including the Law/Torah. Matthew 5:17 “Do not presume that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. 18 For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not [g]the smallest letter or stroke of a letter shall pass from the Law, until all is accomplished! 19 Therefore, whoever nullifies one of the least of these commandments, and teaches [h]others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever [i]keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Read 1 John. John tells us that sin is lawlessness, and that we must keep the commandments. Trust in the atonement of Yahushua/Yeshua who is usually called Jesus, and keep God (YHWH)'s whole Word/commandments. Revelation 12:17 So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. Revelation 14:12 Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. Go to parableofthevineyard youtube channel for information about the bible and good bible studies. I'm in no way paid or sent by him for advertising. I just have learned a lot from his content. He's just a man who is trying to learn as well. :) Yeshua died so we may be resurrected to eternal life.....
Thank you for sharing
I am skeptical. How do they know the frequency of the notes? In the Middle East today, much of the music does not utilize the Western twelve tone scale. And even if this did use our scale, where is the musical notation? What note is a Bb or and F#? Musical notation has evolved over the centuries to what we have today, and even today's manuscript is subject to interpretation. If played exactly as written, music sounds very mechanical, and needs to be interpreted. If we found brass instruments, and some written record of the notes in the harmonic series, or flutes with holes which would define the notes, we would still need that description of how those notes were played, and the rhythm.
I will listen often.
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Hey the picture of them holding there hands up like a triangle 📐 looks familiar
The numeric alphabet
Give the scale the tone the note..
It does not give the time duration rhythm tempo ??
i must say this is beautiful but i highly doubt this is how the music sounded in the holy temple . it probably had aspects of this in it but sung in a Yemenite way
I wonder if the acoustics would make it sound like multiple harps as well
Hello my friend ? Where do you live ? In what country ?
Hi - I am based in the UK...in a tiny village & also I can't drive to regularly do live performance events, so if it was not for my website, TH-cam & Spotify, nobody would even know my music existed!
@@MichaelLevyMusic Ok my friend. May God bless you ! I prayed for you many times.
Praise Jah, praise, oh servants of Jehovah,
praise the na-me of Jehovah,
May Jehovah's na-me become blessed
From now on and to forever.
From the rising sun, Til it's setting
Jehovahs name is to be praised
Above all nations; Jehovah
His glory, above the heavens
Who is like Jehovah our God?
Him who sits enthroned on high?
He stoops down to see what is in the heavens and on earth
Protein music from 3000 years ago!
Psalms was inspired by God.
Beautiful!!
Absolutely perfect😢
Peaceful simply heavenly
sounds like Gregorian chant. Church got it right.
It is fairly logical that since the first Christians were, in fact, Jews, that the earliest Christian music would preserve an aural memory of the original music once performed in the ancient Temple services in Jerusalem.
The taamim don't correspond to single notes like this shows if you go to any orthodox synagogue on sabbath they read it much differently. Each taam represents a series of notes. This is wrong
It sounds Catholic to me, like medieval Spain (using Hebrew text).
@@rinadreyer9847 sephardic maybe?
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Plz tell me what is the correct word, is this Hallel u Yah? or Hallel Yah?
Hallelu Yah. "Hallelu" is the imperative plural form of the verb "Hallal," which means "to praise." "Yah" is a contraction of God's proper name. Thus the phrase, "Hallelu Yah" means "praise the Lord."
Superb!!!
its in a key that is easy for both men and women to sing. beautiful
can you post the words to this song in Hebrew and the English translation?
theword.net - its free!
psalm 113 that is the translation
First four lines-
Hallelujah hallelu avdey Adonai , hallelu eth shem Adonai.
Yehiy shem Adonai mebhorakh may attah ve adh olam.
Mimizrach shemesh adh mebhoO mehullal shem Adonai.
Ram al kal goyim Adonai Al hashamayim kevodo.
Hallahuyah Adonay 💖..
God our lord
Awesome ❤
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To a. 7 year post.. Of which Mr David Levi will have a hand full to answer.
Smart questions..
Sounds quite Gregorian.. there is a vid out on y.t. of a modern(old sounding) guitar interpretation. Of similar music.
After reading article about her book "Music of the Bible Revealed" , it was disputed by many musicologist . WIth prenotion that incompatible with tradition and history of said times .
But it is quite fun to decipher another meaning of the text that become melody .
Let the Name of the Lord be praised in all the world.! Regards: J'HV'H, J'AH, J'ES'US. **(God Above, God above Below, and God Within) "light".
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HalleluYAH
Sequence consequence
Rhythm rhyme reason
Time timing count tempo beat rate ratio
?is not..Melody lovely.
Just open the scroll is has the cantalation marks.
That was beautiful.
That's kind of rubbish on my part, but I can't help thinking that former French president Sárközy's name means "out of the mud" and he became a president (almost a prince).
As far as I know, there is no 3,000 year old text of any Psalm that we have. It's quite possible that the melody is closer in origin to AD 70.
According to Wikipedia: "The psalms were written from the time of the Israelite conquest of Canaan to the post-exilic period and the book was probably compiled and edited into its present form during the post-exilic period in the 5th century BC." - written at least 3000 years ago and compiled about 2,500 years ago.
@@MichaelLevyMusic right, but there's no actual manuscript evidence for that theory.
Yes we Jews are many cool things including Music like everyone else. Thanks for all watching.
I feel like this is true 🙌🏻
This isn’t spending David wrote. He wasn’t using this scale in that fine period.
How Suzanne Haik Vantoura deciphered the most appropriate mode of the melodic line which accompanied each line of Hebrew text, was to use the specific accent and meaning of the original Hebrew text as the key to discover the most appropriate mode - only the best fitting mode would best bring out the meaning & emphasis to the original Hebrew text which the original melody once accompanied.
Amen
I am unpersuaded by the claims made about this music.
Is this jewish (hebrew) pray or christian? Im confused..
This is what just might be the original music of the Psalms of David! Music was actually attached to the entire textvof the Hebrew Bible, not just the Psalms and sang during the services in the Temple of Jerusalem, both in the days of Solomon and later, when the Templexwas rebuilt by Herod.
It is of course, Jewish music - but these would have been maybe the actual melodies Jesus heard during the Temple services...if only we knew for certain, that the 'Te Amim' accents preserving these melodies were indeed, Levitical in origin...
If
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At the end part is to be higher NICE though
Keine Werbung bei sakralen Sachen!!!!
Translate plz
The Mesoretic text is a copy of the bible from less than 1000 years ago. all this signifies is how Germanic Jews in the late middle ages sung the psalms. It can not provide any legitimate info as to how David sung them.
Germanic jews are jews like all the others. The genetic tests shows that they are similar to other jewish groups
This isn't entirely accurate and is a misconception. We at least know that the modern Masoretic texts are practically identical to at least 1st to 4th Century variants. See The En-Gedi Scroll, for example.
Parece Canto Gregoriano...
(113:1) הַ֥לְלוּ Hal·lu יָ֨הּ ׀ yah הַ֭לְלוּ Hal·lu עַבְדֵ֣י 'av·Dei יְהוָ֑ה A·do·Nai; הַֽ֝לְלוּ Hal·lu אֶת־ 'et- שֵׁ֥ם shem יְהוָֽה׃ A·do·Nai.
(113:2) יְהִ֤י ye·Hi שֵׁ֣ם shem יְהוָ֣ה A·do·Nai מְבֹרָ֑ךְ me·vo·Rach; מֵֽ֝·עַתָּ֗ה me·'at·Tah, וְ·עַד־ ve·'ad- עוֹלָֽם׃ o·Lam.
(113:3) מִ·מִּזְרַח־ mi·miz·rach- שֶׁ֥מֶשׁ She·mesh עַד־ 'ad- מְבוֹא֑·וֹ me·vo·'O; מְ֝הֻלָּ֗ל me·hul·Lal, שֵׁ֣ם shem יְהוָֽה׃ A·do·Nai.
(113:4) רָ֖ם ram עַל־ 'al- כָּל־ kol- גּוֹיִ֥ם ׀ go·Yim יְהוָ֑ה A·do·Nai; עַ֖ל 'al הַ·שָּׁמַ֣יִם hash·sha·Ma·yim כְּבוֹדֽ·וֹ׃ ke·vo·Do.
(113:5) מִ֭י mi כַּ·יהוָ֣ה A·do·Nai אֱלֹהֵ֑י·נוּ 'e·lo·Hei·nu; הַֽ·מַּגְבִּיהִ֥י ham·mag·bi·Hi לָ·שָֽׁבֶת׃ la·Sha·vet.
(113:6) הַֽ·מַּשְׁפִּילִ֥י ham·mash·pi·Li לִ·רְא֑וֹת lir·'ot; בַּ·שָּׁמַ֥יִם bash·sha·Ma·yim וּ·בָ·אָֽרֶץ׃ u·va·'A·retz.
(113:7) מְקִֽימִ֣י me·ki·Mi מֵ·עָפָ֣ר me·'a·Far דָּ֑ל Dal; מֵֽ֝·אַשְׁפֹּ֗ת me·'ash·Pot, יָרִ֥ים ya·Rim אֶבְיֽוֹן׃ ev·Yon.
(113:8) לְ·הוֹשִׁיבִ֥י le·ho·shi·Vi עִם־ 'im- נְדִיבִ֑ים ne·di·Vim; עִ֝֗ם 'Im, נְדִיבֵ֥י ne·di·Vei עַמּֽ·וֹ׃ am·Mo.
(113:9) מֽוֹשִׁיבִ֨י ׀ mo·shi·Vi עֲקֶ֬רֶת 'a·Ke·ret הַ·בַּ֗יִת hab·Ba·yit, אֵֽם־ 'em- הַ·בָּנִ֥ים hab·ba·Nim שְׂמֵחָ֗ה se·me·Chah, הַֽלְלוּ־ hal·lu- יָֽהּ׃ Yah.
(Psalms 113:1-9, HiSB)
Adonai should actually be replaced with Ye·ho·Vah
This is Opera. I'm sure nothing like the original.
Unfortunately, in these old 1976 arrangements by Suzanne Haik Vantoura, the concept of 'historically informed' performance was pretty much in its infancy and the singers lapsed automatically into their operatic trained vibrato with even more inappropriate orchestral accompaniment to what might have been the original 3000 year old music of the Hebrew Bible.
Much more authentic-sounding arrangements of some of Suzanne Haik Vantoura's work, evoking how the Levitical Ensemble might actually have sounded, can be heard in the CD (available on Amazon) by the San Antonio Vocal Ensemble - "Ancient Echoes - Music from the Time of Jesus and Jerusalem's Second Temple"
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HAHAHAHAHA , how funy you are , you mean Beethoven style in around 3 thousands year for an Arab look like community !! pfffff Ashekanzi , this is a Psalm not Germany music
kalerman benyamine you know that Beethoven was not a singer....right?
they just followed the method of Susanne Haïk Vantoura. this method works for every psalm and other part with cantilene marks. it gives satisfactory music. This can't be by accident. If it were by accident, it would work for the one psalm, but not for the other, but in fact her method works for EVERY psalm. The point is that we, humans haven't changed in how we listen to music. Yes, we develop in our live, depending on to what kind of music we listen, but in essence we are all the same creatures. So in essence we will recognise a musical melody as logic, or unlogic in a very same way as they did thousands of years ago.
Look to a musical orchestra. Many, MANY instruments are just a further developed form of musical instruments that existed even long before king David
It's the same way catholics sing in their churches, it's very similar
How do you look at a song
@@christianityistrue777 sorry, i've made a mistake, i wanted to say that when we listen to the chant, the way they sing, is very similar to the way catholics sing
Father is the Abba Father Yahushuwah is the Messiah and Ruwach Elohim The Holy Spirit One True Living God I Am Always
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Oh yea I see it now.
I took a better look
Eyes old. The back row
( All doing it)
With pagan sun worship
Triangle hand symbol
I thought they in back
Hold ing trumpet
Reminds me of Gregorian chants
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Do tell ?? how so??
Jehovah is his name
I doubt this is original melody used 3000 yrs ago by Semitics. Sounds more like a Gregorian chant. Sorry!
I very much agree with you.
Although it developed during several centuries, Gregorian chant originally stems from the chant of Synagogues. There's also a stunning similarity between the Jewish prayer for the dead and the beginning of the Gradual Haec dies.
Besides, Arabic music seems to have been influenced by Indian music and may be a late (relatively!) development. We don't know what the general Semitic music sounded like 3000 years ago.
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Look like gregorian chant
This isn't sound. This is written in western and Hebrew is eastern.
Sounds like Spanish Portuguese Jews
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Im Cristian i believe in the father in the son and in the holy Spirit and also in the mother of Jesus
@Lion Pride i pray Mother Mary im cattolic
@@giorgioneintubo Pray to the Lord directly. The Lord wants a personal relationship with you 😊
This is sung wrong
social nature what would be the correct way?
Igor Aguilar it's quite hard to explain in a written message you should hear it. These are not the right tones and not the right sounds
Could you send me a link or an audio explaining? I'm curious in a complete argument
Igor Aguilar I don't believe a audio recording of it exists
Protein music from 3000 years ago!
Psalms was inspired by God.
C'qu'on en a à foutre.
the earth is flat and stationary
lol
That's typically a XXI-st century hoax.
Shema...Hashem Echad! Gd is alone, no companion, not Jesus. Repent!
AMEN.