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Friday, March 16, 2018

What did Ancient Biblical Music sound like?



From the musician, Michael Levy: "Another track from my album "Lyre of the Levites: Klezmer Music for Biblical Lyre" which hopefully demonstrates my hypothesis, that the ancient musical modes still heard today in traditional instrumental Jewish music (klezmer) fit the 10 strings of a modern evocation of a Biblical lyre (kinnor) so perfectly, that just maybe, these very same distinctive scales may well have had their ultimate origins on the 10 strings of the original Biblical kinnor itself?"

This is fascinating. Well, to anyone with an interest in ancient music and/or Biblical history, anyway (guilty on both counts). In case you didn't catch it, the Jewish surname Levy means "Levite", so the musician/scholar is an actual descendant of the Levites of Israel, who were in charge of the music at the Temple.

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