Rediscovering Ancient Greek Music: Sounds from the Past

A film about the reconstruction of ancient greek music by academics at Oxford and Cambridge Universities

[TheStanishStudios]

That piper they interviewed has mad satyr energy.
Can’t explain it, just his body language!

[bjhale]

This was amazing. I'm surprised mine is the first comment. This video should get a lot more exposure than it has.

[seanearnest]

Piper is literally Mr. Tumnus from the Chronicles of Narnia!

[makootithebionicman]

my only wish is to hear the whole of the Iliad performed and sung in ancient greek.

please

please

do the whole version recorded. I would buy the fuck out of the copy

[misstinwhistle]

I like the enthusiasm of the piper. Where can I buy a replica of this instrument?

[grassygnoll]

Is there an uninterrupted recording of the concert?

[arturorubio]

Is the original music for the session in youtube?

[quackduck]

before anyone starts complaining that this doesn't sound like greek, the greek phonology has changed drastically since those times

[mattfrankthefish]

Doot doot doot doot doot doot doot do do

oh demond runners, with beating wings
Goddesses of the night!
With baneful music, you fance sinister revels
With wailing and laments
Ye black-coated kindly goddesses
who tread the thinning air aloft for bloody kin-murder!
demanding due redress, demanding due justice
I beg you from my heart, I beg you from my soul!
That Agamemnon's son is given leave to overcom his frenzies,
these mad attacks driving him wild.
WOE THE TOILS
so great which, poor man, you've faced and endured.

Doot doot doot doot doot doot doot do do

What kind of pity, what kind of struggle of blood awaits you now?
It rushes upon you, wretch, bringing sorrow, tears upon tears it brings,
Some nameless avenging spirit dances in
to quench your mother's blood by driving you insane!
For you my tears are shed, for you my tears are shed
Good fortune does not last for mortals on this earth,
like sails on a swift ship that cuts the ocean waves
God buffets us about and sinks us in
A SEA OF TROUBLES
like the ocean's deat-dealing billows that sweep o'er the main!

[yorgoVV]

excellent, commendable work, thank you, and remember besides the more "formal" and staid "serious" music to accompany poetic / dramatic performances, there were other more orgiastic functions as depicted on vases, e.g. symposia, dionyssian rites, that music surely must have sounded a lot jazzier, add crotala, tympani drums, kithara, as for the accuracy of depictions of instruments on vases, on comments made below, the artists were quite true to life then

[ShadowZero]

what i want to know is,
attic, koine, or middle greek?

[iasonchatzopoulos]

Greeks with a Mediterranean temperament, with a great love for music and dance, would not be able to listen to this music. This music might have been played in theater performances.

[hizaleus]

I would be suspicious of the accuracy of the reproduction of the kithera just from depictions in art. Artist renderings of contemporary, common instruments are frequently very inaccurate.

[steliosdimolios]

Im sorry but your your accent is not the best i don't blame you just saying

[Lawh]

I mean, it has to sound good. I don't think this is it.