Playing music in ancient languages 🎵 with Farya Faraji

Farya Faraji's channel exhibits musical traditions from around the world, creating a digital musical museum for the benefit of all mankind. To quote Farya, "If there's one thing that unites us, it's our universal love for music, and that love transcends where we're from, what we look like and what we believe in. Music is often used to emphasise difference and separation. I want to use it to show how we're all the same at the end of the day."

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[faryafaraji]

Here’s the corrections I wrote down last time for the good people watching this in posterity, and thanks once again Luke for inviting me here!

*I mention Georgian chanting/singing early on, but I meant Gregorian, silly mistake on my part.

*I later mention that we don’t know the Seikilos Epitaph’s mode, but I was confusing this with another historical piece, and the confusion regarding the Seikilos epitaph is one of nomenclature: we know what the melody was, we’re just not sure what that mode was named within the Ancient Greek tonos system.

[AyanAcademy]

It probably wasn't meant for that but Farya's Hikanatoi and Belisarius is how we have been putting our 20 months to sleep. :)

[KozmicKarmaKoala]

Since covid I had lost interest in the things I once loved. Hearing you guys speaking language and music was a piece of the Aeonic reaching this isolated Koala in this frigid dystopic NYC. Grazie Lucca ! ❤❤❤❤

[StergiosMekras]

I bumped into Farya's channel without even spotting this video. So glad you two found each other!

The work you two are doing tickles my history bone and is great help with worldbuilding.

[dimitrisnikoloulis]

As Greek, i must say that Farya impressed me with his knowledge in ancient Greek music. Ancient Greek music style was more modal. And the modal scales were descending, not ascending like today. There were 7 modes ( tones ) . Ionian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Doric, Aeolian, Locric, Frygian . All tones had their Ethics, their type of sound, and were used in many occasion, like triumphs, laments, rituals etc. The scales was combined by the conection of the modes, trichords or tetrachords, which leads us to Byzantine Octaechos and nowadays middle - eastern - Arabic music and the maqaams . As the same way . Well done Farya .

[philpaine]

I'm fascinated by Mr. Faraji explaining his Mazandarani heritage. I'm French Canadian from Northern Ontario (where the French sounds a bit different from Quebec), with some Métis roots and close familiarity with both Métis and Cree traditions --- including lots of First Nations music. For several years, I worked in a dental laboratory in Toronto. The owner/manager was French Canadian, and we had many French speaking customers. The staff was the usual Toronto mixture of people from many lands, but there was a core group of technicians who spoke Farsi. One was from Tehran, long in Toronto, and spoke English with no accent, and French with a slight one. One was from Isfahan, though descended from the Ukrainians who migrated to Iran several generations ago. Another was an Azeri who grew up speaking Farsi but retained his Azeri and also spoke some Kurdish. Another was an Afghan who spoke Dari, but she could switch gears to sound more Farsi to accommodate the others. We briefly also had a Tadzhik speaker who only seemed comfortable talking to the Afghan. Over many lunchroom conversations, I learned quite a bit about the complexities of the Iranic world, in addition to the books I had read since I had a childhood fascination with the Achaemenids. I was aware of Mazandaran, and knew the basic things that Mr. Faraji said about its distinctive geography, but had never heard someone of that background discussing it. I have long been curious about that distinctive place. The idea that the person explaining it to me would also be able to understand things in my own heritage --- such as the distinct features that make Métis music distinct in its matrix of Cree, Ojibway, Dené, French Canadian, Highland Scot, Irish and Orcadian influences. . . well that completely blows me away. And he knows Inuit music, too!!!
. . . This two hour-long conversation seems way too short for me. I wish it was three times as long.
. . . PS - Is Mr. Faraji familiar with the music of the Canadian composer Christos Hatzis?

[haroldchase]

Honestly I’m finding I learn faster by listening to your music. Naturally I use other methods in concert

[cwkarlschulte]

A new favorite has joined an old one. Just left the eastern music and ancient Greek modes and wound up her. Glad you are aware of one another.

[domminteer]

Seeing them team up to share knowledge was so cool! y'know what I'd love to see in an impossible dream scenario-- Luke, Farya, and Max Miller and maybe a few other historians doing a round table about historical research and reconstruction in completely different fields. or some kind of collaborative work, anything cross-field would be so interesting!

[poppycalliope]

When people follow their passion this is the result. To say they are interesting, is an understatement. I knew Polymathy and then Farya Faraji came to my attention. Just brilliant!!

[coldsholda]

What a great video Farya is the man as a Italian American who loves Roman history

[alessiorancani]

how does Farya produce that kind of music? I am very fascinated and I really like Farya's Latin epic music ❤

[Ragdll]

42:57 in Sanskrit or its prakrit (vulgar) derivatives we called the Greeks the Yona (Ionians) as well

[askarufus]

43:05 Same about Poland which was a conglomerate of several West Slavic tribes: Polanie, Wiślanie, Lędzianie and others and to this day the foreigners call Poland either from the Polanie tribe or Lędzianie tribe e.g. Lengyel in Hungarian, Lachy in Ukrainian and Russian and many other countries that are South East from Poland

[GreatistheWorld]

Brain was on fire the whole time. You gotta do this again

[raxit]

Two of my favourite creators, this was a huge treat. Letting your guests go on tangents and be passionate about what theyre talking about is so much better than a traditional interview style. Thanks both of you!

[praxitelisnikolaou]

Brilliant conversation guys, extremely interesting :)

[DarkVeghetta]

This was a fascinating exploration of musicality in relation to both ancient and contemporary languages. Highly enjoyable hearing both of you speak on the subject matter.

[iberius]

Wow. Forgot to like a this video, two years ago. Historic because it's what got me into this man's gem of a channel. Now he is my personal favorite musician/composer.

[daidaruss]

este señor es MAGICO gracias por rl arte Farya!