“The Lyre of Thamyris“ - track 3 from my 2021 album, “Echoes of Ancient Greece“. Aiming to literally ’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.
In Greek mythology, Thamyris (Greek: Θάμυρις, Thámuris), son of Philammon and the nymph Argiope, was a Thracian singer. He became so accomplished in singing to the kithara, that the Scythians made him their king! He was so proud of his skill that he boasted he could out sing the Muses.
He competed against them and lost - as punishment for his presumption they blinded him and took away his ability to make poetry and to play the lyre! This outline of the story is told in the Iliad.
The mournful nature of the story is expressed through the use of the distinctively mournful ancient Greek Hypodorian Mode - this mode featured the conjunction of 2 tetrachords, which formed the equivalent intervals as A-A on the white notes of the piano, but heard here with my lyre tuned in authentic just intonation.
The recreated lyre featured for most of the tracks in this album, is the marvellously mythological “Lyre of Apollo III“ - a chelys (tortoise shell form) lyre; handmade in modern Greece, by Luthieros:
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