This video, is a short rendition of one of the precious few fragments of surviving ancient Greek music! This haunting, almost dream-like fragment of melody was preverved in ancient Byzantine manuscripts(Conspectus codicum: V. Venetus Marcianus appl. cl. VI, saec. XIII-XIV N. Neapolitanus graecus III. C4, saec. XV F. Florentius Ricc. 41, saec. XVI), in the unambiguous alphabetical musical notation used in ancient Greece, & the melodic fragment is catalogued as “Anonymous, Bellermann 97-104“. I heard this lovely melody for the first time, on the CD “Musique de la Grece Antique“(track 13). All of my 9 albums of mystical, ancient lyre music are now available from iTunes...
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