A live performance of "Glory of the Parthenon" - track 10 from my new album in progress, "Magic of the Kithara". Originally featured on my 2010 EP, "The Ancient Greek Modes", this new arrangement of the piece for recreated ancient Greek kithara, attempts to evoke the lost beauty and perfection of the Parthenon, by use of the distinctively poignant ancient Greek Phrygian Mode - the equivalent intervals as D-D on the white notes of the piano, but heard here in the pristine focus of just intonation.
Due for release on all the usual digital music platforms on 1st January 2025, each and every one of the tracks for "Magic of the Kithara" can be previewed, as they are created, only on Bandcamp:
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The kithara reached its pinnacle during the 5th century BCE. There is plenty of controversy about the construction - the curious spring-like structures clearly illustrated below the crossbeam to which the strings are attached, could either be interpreted as structural (providing equal & opposite reaction to the downward pull of the strings on the slender arms of the kithara, as most academic scholars believe), or maybe even evidence of some form of mechanical vibrato/portamento mechanism!
My recreated ancient Greek kithara was hand-made in modern Greece by Luthieros:
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For more detailed information on the kithara of classical antiquity, please also see my own website blog:
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