Legends of Sparta - Epic Music

You can buy this song and more of my music here: Music by Farya Faraji, including sampled improvisations from musicologists specialised in Ancient Greek music. Keep in mind that though aspects of this song very much emulate the sound of Ancient Greece’s music, it is by no means meant to be a reconstructive work representative of the era’s music (as evidenced by the copious use of the Bouzouki and Sazi, instruments that appeared more than two thousand years later in Greece), and has more in common with modern Greek folk. All in all though, it’s first and foremost an “epic“ style song, something along the lines of film soundtracks—the point here isn’t to emulate Ancient or modern Greek music in a totally accurate manner. The basis of this piece was inspired by a passage I read about Ancient Greek music, describing how Spartan soldiers would advance in battle to the sound of the auloi pipes, the instrument heard in the very