Ancient music - Oldest complete song "Epitaph of Seikolos" - Greek Lyre, Har-Mose lute

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Brian Kay Official

Brian Kay Official

3 жыл бұрын

A very old song on very old instruments...
Epitaph of Seikolos is the oldest full length song in existence. Here, I accompany the song on some of the most ancient plucked instruments; Greek lyre, ancient lute, and the Har-Mose (Egyptian) lute which is the oldest surviving lute in the world dating as far back as 1490 bc.

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@readtruth6670
@readtruth6670 Жыл бұрын
It’s as if the music has no regard for the thousands of years gone by. It still connects all who hear it.
@nicolepeixoto9787
@nicolepeixoto9787 2 ай бұрын
Amen
@frankboogaard88
@frankboogaard88 Жыл бұрын
Since you went through the trouble of actually re-creating the instruments, this is probably the most accurate version of that song that will ever be posted on KZfaq ;)
@medidkorn
@medidkorn 29 күн бұрын
Wrong because he said it himself he's doing an improvisation on the instrument to the lyrics... he's not playing the actual song.
@repeatdefender6032
@repeatdefender6032 3 ай бұрын
So haunting, music reaching across the centuries, heard by me in the most modern way possible, via the internet. Beautiful instruments, wonderful work.
@thekingsbard6132
@thekingsbard6132 3 жыл бұрын
Probably the best rendition of this piece that I've ever heard! Well done!
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Wow. Thank you!
@natheria4933
@natheria4933 3 ай бұрын
it is absolutely incredible that a song managed to survive for over a thousand years. What a beautiful song too. Its such a terrible shame we lose so much to time.
@ElijahIndeed
@ElijahIndeed 20 күн бұрын
" 🎵O Kronos Apaitei 🎵" ... Time Requires its due
@jeremiahfrancis8145
@jeremiahfrancis8145 Жыл бұрын
Great Composers: Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Chopin, Kay... You are a Genius, Young Man... All the Former may Have Created Great pieces, and Played many instruments, However, You Make Them; and, Play and Sing With a Spirit far Beyond tHis Realm, Heavenly. You Brought Me Peace... Thank You.
@user-ff8em8cv8m
@user-ff8em8cv8m 3 жыл бұрын
If I could, I would put ten thousand likes. Thank you very much for continuing to post the video here. Your work is incomparable. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
I wish you could!! Thanks so much. Reactions like this really mean a lot to me.
@pabhb
@pabhb 7 ай бұрын
How can this video not have 10 million views? Amazing work, thank you!
@stefanheintzelmann5744
@stefanheintzelmann5744 5 ай бұрын
So ancient and mystic! Bravo! 👌🏻🏛👏🏻
@_koza
@_koza 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing that these instruments & musical style sounds like it sits exactly in the middle of all the cultural music from around the world. I hear hints of European, East Asian, Middle Eastern, Indian, African, & even Aboriginal Australian. Native American music isn't too far off, but has a bit more uniqueness than the rest.
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for saying this. I was hoping to convey this so it’s great to hear that it landed.
@pinktheaxolotl5428
@pinktheaxolotl5428 6 ай бұрын
​@@briankayofficial3237 what is the second instrument, I wanna play it. And I am willing to break a few nails and finger bruses for it.
@tariizm1500
@tariizm1500 20 күн бұрын
sorry but i dont hear it north African and north Indian music both influenced by middle easterns and Greco-Roman was influenced by Mesopotamian but they upgraded it in Islamic golden age Arabs adopted Greco-Roman style so today's middle eastern music + Balkan especially Greek music is direct continuity of Mesopotamian + Greco-Roman music so there is that
@thecitizen49
@thecitizen49 Жыл бұрын
Making music is the best thing that humans have ever done.
@jadechan8673
@jadechan8673 26 күн бұрын
soft and haunting. Thank you for your dedication. you have a beautiful voice
@145FREE
@145FREE Жыл бұрын
Greek beat! Love it! And to think it came together using modern digital editing. Exciting artistic interpretation... old and new. Bravo!
@Antiagingalchemy
@Antiagingalchemy 4 ай бұрын
So enthralling!! Thank you for putting your time and dedication into recreating what these beautiful songs must have sounded like ❤
@AntonL1994
@AntonL1994 2 жыл бұрын
It seems I have reached the absolute limit of finding the ‘deep cuts’
@victoriaviana8643
@victoriaviana8643 2 жыл бұрын
Not only beautiful, and wonderfully performed, but also extremelly moving and inspiring. I'm currently writing a paper on the value of clasic culture on today's world, and your music and your voice I get in the mood to fall in love with early history more than ever. If this is not a love declaration, I don't know what is 😜
@aachen800
@aachen800 2 жыл бұрын
This really brings the past forward. I think of the countless beautiful compositions that have been painstakingly created, enjoyed and then lost to time.
@cynthiafolio9384
@cynthiafolio9384 2 жыл бұрын
I love the instruments and the unusual meters in the interpretation (which is usually in strict 6/8 time). I love the freedom!
@rlord7053
@rlord7053 2 жыл бұрын
Beautifully done.. closed my eyes and listened before I started my day.
@ryanradpictures
@ryanradpictures 11 ай бұрын
What an exceptionally beautiful and historic performance! Listening to the very ancient piece of music, 'Epitaph of Seikolos,' played on Greek instruments such as the lyre and Har-Mose lute, is a truly amazing and exciting experience. I highly recommend this video to all enthusiasts of historical music.
@tariizm1500
@tariizm1500 20 күн бұрын
incredible i can vibe with it as a middle eastern that shows how middle eastern music is direct continiuty of Greco-Roman music
@pattierichards7391
@pattierichards7391 Ай бұрын
beautiful! thank you!
@superfluffyfun
@superfluffyfun 4 ай бұрын
wonderful...my guitar weeps
@fromthebackseat4865
@fromthebackseat4865 Жыл бұрын
This is absolutely incredible. Music is such an amazing thing and I feel like you’ve taken me back in time. Thank you for sharing this. Im extremely grateful people are keeping this stuff alive.
@TheSound0fsilence
@TheSound0fsilence 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Brian! It was enlightening and very beautiful. The lute part's so hypnotizing, it took me away for a couple of minutes. Btw, it would be nice to see a tour on your instruments.
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Great suggestion. I will probably begin to do more talk videos with demonstrations of my instruments.
@rickdynes
@rickdynes Жыл бұрын
.. working on an extensive immersive electronic music project ... this is already an absolutely inspiring reference ... thank you Sir for this gifting of a perfect introduction to this perfect masterpiece
@Iskandar64
@Iskandar64 2 ай бұрын
That is beautiful, and you have such a lovely voice.
@triosefardi5268
@triosefardi5268 3 жыл бұрын
Truly impressive and very beautiful, Brian. You continue to amaze!
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you and miss you all!
@felixguerrero6062
@felixguerrero6062 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing work.
@xt6006
@xt6006 Жыл бұрын
Amazing! Bravo! Thanks a lot!
@staggerlee3587
@staggerlee3587 9 ай бұрын
Love this. Great job
@BradfordtheEclectic
@BradfordtheEclectic 3 жыл бұрын
All that is missing is boisterous applause at the conclusion.
@hiddenhope7569
@hiddenhope7569 Жыл бұрын
Now this is worth subscribing to. Very well done.
@hiddenhope7569
@hiddenhope7569 Жыл бұрын
Here we go thats how you recall music properly. You need the original instruments.
@peterfrance702
@peterfrance702 Жыл бұрын
Bravo! Spin me back down the years and the days of my youth.
@suemacias667
@suemacias667 Жыл бұрын
Lovely. Love the instruments you made also. I like making these too! Beautiful!
@masterdon3821
@masterdon3821 Жыл бұрын
This hymnic style is between happiness and sadness. Today european music is too happy, while midlde eastern is too sad. Such middle ground feeling you can find at the edges of the map, papua ,sahel, in some parts of south east asia,maybe ireland
@geokes64
@geokes64 2 жыл бұрын
all together beautifully done
@davidjoshua
@davidjoshua 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing this! Great work! Bravo! :)
@gorgosaurusful
@gorgosaurusful Жыл бұрын
¡This is awesome! Thank you for sharing.
@frenchpizza9725
@frenchpizza9725 2 жыл бұрын
My home. In ancient days. Alula. Thanks for this. Untainted. Complete. Pure. We return to CREATOR knowing the truth. Our Souls DON'T speak English we speak Creator. I love love love love love love love love love love love you all. Your talent is amazing Artist work. Full circle to the True Humans that love CREATOR. Ancestors loving us still.....play on
@user-hw6zp7wh3e
@user-hw6zp7wh3e 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing work! Glad to see a new video!
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Glad you subscribed!
@axeboardwilliesbassessoasis.
@axeboardwilliesbassessoasis. 3 ай бұрын
Amazing.Love It.
@thyrn888
@thyrn888 3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating and beautiful. thank you!
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
You are welcome!
@robabnawaz
@robabnawaz 7 ай бұрын
Can't stop wating it again and again.
@Flat8G
@Flat8G 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely lovley! I love your lyre playing technique!
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@LughSamildanach
@LughSamildanach 10 ай бұрын
Incredibly impressive. Very well done.
@kulera
@kulera 4 ай бұрын
That was beautiful ❤
@unknown_norie
@unknown_norie Жыл бұрын
That's awesome and imperative. Great channel. A pleasure 🛶
@line8124
@line8124 10 ай бұрын
It's honestly hard to imagine how a person could play such a song so flawlessly.
@robabnawaz
@robabnawaz Жыл бұрын
I love this Har Mose lute
@MrGREYMATTERS
@MrGREYMATTERS 3 жыл бұрын
WOW!!! BEAUTIFUL instrument builds! SUBLIME performance! BRAVO!!!
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@Ragniirox
@Ragniirox 3 жыл бұрын
Quality content as always.
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I hope to keep it up!
@jdlr369
@jdlr369 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a professional listen into the past.
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
You are welcome
@johnstartup3938
@johnstartup3938 2 жыл бұрын
Sophisticated .
@edurbrow
@edurbrow 3 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful way to not lose a pick! Oh yeah, the music is beautiful and some very interesting techniques. Bravo.
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Yes it is! You can see in many of the images from Ancient Greece a very clear string going from pick to instrument. It also appears in ancient Egyptian images.
@Tom-Lahaye
@Tom-Lahaye 3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful song, you can also hear well where the later music styles from the middle east came from.
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Yes I agree
@EricOwensFlute
@EricOwensFlute 2 ай бұрын
Bro! You are a super badass! Respect!
@TSBoncompte
@TSBoncompte Жыл бұрын
this is excellent
@wesleykalor5267
@wesleykalor5267 Жыл бұрын
Epically wowed!
@hellomate639
@hellomate639 8 ай бұрын
Seems like you're farther along the same journey, making your own instruments because they're hard to come by. I just finished up building a lyre. One project I have in mind is building the instruments from Middle Earth, especially since music was fairly emphasized in the books. I kind of want to try to develop styles for dwarves and elves, but really focus on using the most appropriate things from older and newer traditions, really trying to get in deeper touch with the emotional and intuitive language of music. I've been thinking of producing some of these older instruments and figuring out how to market them, especially easy ones to make like the anglo saxon lyre. But, I also see these cheap 100 dollar lyre harps being fairly popular, and they don't fit any particular tradition, but rather are treated as a beginner instrument. I also have something in mind for that type of thing, but perhaps with more old world inspiration so that the instrument has more of that old world magic.
@chadjohnson4392
@chadjohnson4392 3 жыл бұрын
I love your stuff. I tell everyone about you. Keep it up.
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much and thanks for sharing!
@madarhorsev
@madarhorsev 4 ай бұрын
Bro...u are..❤ great thank U❤
@johnstartup3938
@johnstartup3938 2 жыл бұрын
Fretting with harmonics . No neck . Wonderful .
@allancerf9038
@allancerf9038 Жыл бұрын
Brian Kay Official - Absolutely fantastic.
@benneven9316
@benneven9316 3 ай бұрын
Impressive!
@Aervund
@Aervund 2 жыл бұрын
Incredible
@musasiii
@musasiii 7 ай бұрын
Cool you did great 👍👍
@fazergazer
@fazergazer Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the old days ❤
@jaimepeak1406
@jaimepeak1406 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@lauraestes9304
@lauraestes9304 3 күн бұрын
This is the origin of the guitar !
@hinditaly2882
@hinditaly2882 3 жыл бұрын
You are special 💛🥇🌟
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
So are you ; )
@stoneybrotherbass
@stoneybrotherbass 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome, I am writing a story where two of the characters often play music together one with a Lute one with a Lyre I searched to hear what it might sound like, i never heard a lyre before,
@TheNephilli
@TheNephilli Жыл бұрын
aaaaaaaaand subscribed!
@frenchpizza9725
@frenchpizza9725 2 жыл бұрын
True frequencies of God. Thanks family
@cynthiamathers8933
@cynthiamathers8933 2 жыл бұрын
Yes 🙏✨✨
@cynthiamathers8933
@cynthiamathers8933 2 жыл бұрын
I love so much 😍✨✨✨✨💕💕
@magneticexpansionradio4100
@magneticexpansionradio4100 2 жыл бұрын
Nicely done I'm learning banjo and have been researching how ancient Sumerians tuned up , I can't figure out how to tune my 5 string banjo if I were to play along , what would you recommend ?
@bearshield7138
@bearshield7138 Жыл бұрын
exquisite
@vinceraineing
@vinceraineing 12 күн бұрын
Wow
@istinapravda7956
@istinapravda7956 Жыл бұрын
it reminds me of white rabbit jefferson airplane 4:36 only this is more pleasing to my ears
@jonspatton
@jonspatton 3 жыл бұрын
Cool rendition and beautifully sung as always. Did you diary the process of making the instruments at all?
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Barely. I only took a few photos, so not enough content for a video unfortunately. I get so into the individual project that I forget to document. But this is a good reminder for me in future endeavors.
@Zikuth
@Zikuth Ай бұрын
The recreation of the instruments is awesome and the performance. Awesome there. I have problems with the version. Greek people loved simplicity, and the lyrics invites to relax and joy, you made it sound almost baroque, almost tedious. I could feel even the air of the sea in the melody, but not in your version
@calielaine7222
@calielaine7222 3 жыл бұрын
Spectular.
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@marienkijne
@marienkijne 2 жыл бұрын
I've got a question. I'm trying to make a replica of the lute, and the only thing I've not found out yet is how the hide was attached to the body. How did you attach yours? Edit: in specifically talking about the one with 6 holes in the resonating membrane. It looks like you used nails or wooden pegs? Very interesting to think how they made these 3500 years ago
@clawhammer704
@clawhammer704 7 ай бұрын
How did you discover how it tuned? I noticed in one of the old pictures shown here one guy is playing rhythm with a plectrum while the other fellow is playing lead with possibly a singer standing there. Could also be a listener.
@stringsandpipes7548
@stringsandpipes7548 3 жыл бұрын
What are you holding in your right hand while strumming the lyre? A microphone or a pic?
@natey6256
@natey6256 Жыл бұрын
About what tuning are the instruments here? especially interested in the 3 stringed lute.
@arvydas0069
@arvydas0069 Ай бұрын
Wow....fuckin great
@ERK_hanna
@ERK_hanna 3 ай бұрын
By any chance was this made into a single i want to put rhis on Spotify
@frenchpizza9725
@frenchpizza9725 2 жыл бұрын
Wooooooooooow
@almishti
@almishti Жыл бұрын
What is that image (vase painting?) at :55 from?
@cheifcreekturtle
@cheifcreekturtle 2 жыл бұрын
Luteallica wrote this. From their album ride the chariot.
@johnfoley8260
@johnfoley8260 4 ай бұрын
What was the source for the musical accompaniment?
@ciccioconti0
@ciccioconti0 Жыл бұрын
Good morning, can i use a few seconds of your music inside a personal documentary?
@chapstick-217
@chapstick-217 9 ай бұрын
can i like get a download of some melodies you have with these instruments? am a producer the vocals are nice too
@chapstick-217
@chapstick-217 9 ай бұрын
@mauriziosorelli9566
@mauriziosorelli9566 3 ай бұрын
Mi sorprende che ci siano tanti commenti entusiastici riguardo a musica modale di due millenni fa. Non risentendo di attrazioni tonali, non può che sonare alquanto vacua, abituati come siamo da quattro secoli alle più smaglianti architetture dei geni della musica tonale occidentale, da Monteverdi a Stravinskij
@ethanburn8574
@ethanburn8574 3 жыл бұрын
This makes me want to go and play Odyssey again-
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
Odyssey was great. Origins is what originally prompted me to build these instruments... Looking forward to playing Valhalla!
@Zeagods-CyberShadow
@Zeagods-CyberShadow 2 жыл бұрын
@@briankayofficial3237 yes i prefer origins. Its where i saw the lute and it sounds like the oud
@patriciawilson605
@patriciawilson605 Ай бұрын
Almost modern music!
@stringsandpipes7548
@stringsandpipes7548 3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. Could you post the music sheet for those who want to try playing the first piece on another instrument?
@briankayofficial3237
@briankayofficial3237 3 жыл бұрын
The music is available in modern notation with a simple google search. The original tablet image is available in Wikipedia if you want a crack at that...
@kathrynblack9022
@kathrynblack9022 29 күн бұрын
This is beautiful! Thank you! ✨
@user-jp8iy6jp8e
@user-jp8iy6jp8e Жыл бұрын
What is the tuning of the har mose
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