Echoes of Ancient Greece - 'The Cosmic Wisdom of Urania'

A 'live' performance of track 6, "The Cosmic Wisdom of Urania", from my new album, "Echoes of Ancient Greece" - due for release across all the usual digital music platforms including Spotify, iTunes & Aamzon on 3rd May 2021, the album can also be pre-ordered on iTunes & Amazon from 17th April.

Aiming to 'carry on where the ancient Greeks left off', this album features new music - for the recreated ancient Greek lyre!

Inspired by an idea to literally musically evoke snapshots from ancient Greek mythology, the selection of tracks attempt to convey the distinctive attributes of many of the long-forgotten deities of the ancient Greek pantheon of gods and goddesses.

The recreated lyre featured for most of the tracks in this album, is the marvellously mythological "Lyre of Apollo III" - a massive chelys (tortoise shell form) lyre; handmade in modern Greece, by Luthieros:

Urania, (Greek: “Heavenly”) in ancient Greek mythology, was one of the nine Muses, and the patron of astronomy.

In some accouts she was the mother of Linus the musician (in other versions, his mother is the Muse Calliope); the father was either Hermes or Amphimarus, son of Poseidon.

Urania was also occasionally used as a byname for Aphrodite. Her attributes were the globe and compass.

In an attempt to convey the eternal timelessness of the cosmos, this piece features the dreamy yet dramatic ancient Greek Hypophrygian mode, with my lyre tuned in geometrically pure just intonation. Misnamed the 'Dorian' mode in the Middle Ages, this mode comprises of the conjunction of 2 tetrachords which form the equivalent intervals as D-D on the white notes of the piano.

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[a.steinkeller]

You make my days much better. Thank you.

[Revelwoodie]

Always a happy surprise when one of your videos pops up in my feed. Thank you!

[vanitydauphinecarlisle]

I just saw you pay tribute to Hecate! Yay! I'm going to listen to that next. My favorite Greek goddess is naturally, Aphrodite (Taurus ♉) and Persephone 🌺

[lycagos]

i am a composer myself, and i can understand what runs in your mind when you compose these musics,
i am always coming to your channel for thinking lessons my friend, you excel and transcend in this,
there are things that you do that are far beyond the western music, as exactly ancient greek music was, full of schemes but also more than the schemes at many peaks of the road,
your clean pieces would be music masterpieces my friend, the raw editions are exercises for the mind

[vanitydauphinecarlisle]

I would be quite elated to hear a version of my song Panty Boy with an accompanying lyre even more so than guitar now thanks to your introduction 👍