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Ancient Greek Microtonal Polyphony?

The third in my series of musical experiments, inspired by Plato's account of what can only be described as the practice of polyphony in the music of his time - some 2400 years ago! In this particular experiment, I set out to demonstrate that even some of the most exotic, microtonal ancient Greek musical scales also work perfectly well in a polyphonic setting. The existence of some sort of polyphony is certainly hinted at in Plato's "Laws" ( Book VII, Section 812d), when in describing how a music teacher should best teach young boys from the ages of 9-12 years old to play the lyre, Plato advises that he should merely double the melodic line on his own lyre - in order to avoid the florid use of harmony and counterpoint what must have presumably been the most common actual performance practice at the time: "... the teacher and the learner ought to use the sounds of the lyre, because its notes are pure, the player who teaches and his pupil rendering note for note in unison; but complexity, and variation of notes, when the strings give one sound and the poet or composer of the melody gives another -also when they make concords and harmonies in which lesser and greater intervals, slow and quick, or high and low notes, are combined - or, again, when they make complex variations of rhythms, which they adapt to the notes of the lyre - all that sort of thing is not suited to those who have to acquire a speedy and useful knowledge of music in three years; for opposite principles are confusing, and create a difficulty in learning, and our young men should learn quickly, and their mere necessary acquirements are not few or trifling, as will be shown in due course. Let the director of education attend to the principles concerning music which we are laying down." In order to demonstrate how the practice of ancient Greek polyphony (which Plato expressed such a disdain to!) may have actually sounded, I arranged for replica ancient Greek kithara, a spontaneous improvisation in an exotic, documented ancient Greek microtonal scale, known as the "Archytas Enharmonic Genus", which features the use of quartertones - adding an intensity to the resulting music which has so sadly been long-forgotten in our modern, monotonously standardized Western 'musical' experience: http://www.ancientlyre.com/ancient_gr... I created the polyphonic effects, thanks to my Boss RC-1 Loop pedal, in conjunction with the "Ancient Greek Lyre Audio Capsule" pickup for replica ancient Greek lyre - made in modern Greece, by the manufacturers of my replica ancient Greek kithara, Luthieros Ancient & Modern Music Instruments: http://en.luthieros.com/ For full details on my research into the evidence for the use of harmony and even polyphony in antiquity, please also see my detailed website blog, "The Urban Myth of the Monotony of Monophony in the Ancient World: http://www.ancientlyre.com/the_urban_... Many thanks for watching! Subscribe Here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... http://www.ancientlyre.com/   / beautifullyre     / ancientlyre   http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/MichaelLevy https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/mi...