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.
Every note you hear and circle you see represents gas that is either
coming toward us (high notes and blue color) or going away from us (low
notes and red color). Different gas phases
are played by different instruments and shown by different colored
borders on the circles. Each observation is represented by a line
showing where the telescope was pointing and the positions of the
circles along a line show the locations of the gas in the Galaxy. The star symbol shows the location of the Sun.
The intensity of the emission coming from the gas is heard as longer
note durations and shown as larger circles. With every new measure, the
lines swing around to new observations.
