A 'live' performance on my evocation of the 10-string Biblical lyre of
the beautiful Shabbat melodycomposed by Rabbi Israel Goldfarb, "Shalom
Aleichem" - track 19, "King David's Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel".
This album and its sequel, "Lyre of the Levites: Klezmer Music For
Biblical Lyre" attempt to evoke the feeling of the music of ancient
Israel/Judea, with arrangements of both traditional Jewish sacred and
instrumental Klezmer music, uniquely arranged for my evocation of the
10-string Biblical lyre known in Hebrew as the "Kinnor", which is
vividly described both throughout the Biblical text and also in the
writings of the first century Jewish historican, Flavius Josephus, who
actually witnessed the Levites play their Kinnors in the Temple of
Jerusalem:
http://ancientlyre.com/the_biblical_k...
In this 'live'performance, I also use the wonderfully pure just
intonation of antiquity (courtesy of the iPod "Cleartune" App!)
There is evidence to suggest, from the life's work of the late Suzanne
Haik Vantoura, that the very same ancient musical modes still heard
today in both instrumental klezmer and sacred Jewish music, had their
ultimate origins in the music of the Levites, once performed in the
ancient Temple services.