Ancient music - Oldest complete song "Epitaph of Seikolos" - Greek Lyre, Har-Mose lute 

It’s as if the music has no regard for the thousands of years gone by. It still connects all who hear it.

Since you went through the trouble of actually re-creating the instruments, this is probably the most accurate version of that song that will ever be posted on RU-vid ;)

Probably the best rendition of this piece that I've ever heard! Well done!

So haunting, music reaching across the centuries, heard by me in the most modern way possible, via the internet. Beautiful instruments, wonderful work.

it is absolutely incredible that a song managed to survive for over a thousand years. What a beautiful song too. Its such a terrible shame we lose so much to time.

Great Composers: Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Chopin, Kay... You are a Genius, Young Man... All the Former may Have Created Great pieces, and Played many instruments, However, You Make Them; and, Play and Sing With a Spirit far Beyond tHis Realm, Heavenly. You Brought Me Peace... Thank You.

Amazing that these instruments & musical style sounds like it sits exactly in the middle of all the cultural music from around the world. I hear hints of European, East Asian, Middle Eastern, Indian, African, & even Aboriginal Australian. Native American music isn't too far off, but has a bit more uniqueness than the rest.

So ancient and mystic! Bravo! 👌🏻🏛👏🏻

If I could, I would put ten thousand likes. Thank you very much for continuing to post the video here. Your work is incomparable. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

soft and haunting. Thank you for your dedication. you have a beautiful voice

How can this video not have 10 million views? Amazing work, thank you!

Greek beat! Love it! And to think it came together using modern digital editing. Exciting artistic interpretation... old and new. Bravo!

I love the instruments and the unusual meters in the interpretation (which is usually in strict 6/8 time). I love the freedom!

Not only beautiful, and wonderfully performed, but also extremelly moving and inspiring. I'm currently writing a paper on the value of clasic culture on today's world, and your music and your voice I get in the mood to fall in love with early history more than ever. If this is not a love declaration, I don't know what is 😜

This really brings the past forward. I think of the countless beautiful compositions that have been painstakingly created, enjoyed and then lost to time.

Beautifully done.. closed my eyes and listened before I started my day.

So enthralling!! Thank you for putting your time and dedication into recreating what these beautiful songs must have sounded like ❤

It seems I have reached the absolute limit of finding the ‘deep cuts’

Making music is the best thing that humans have ever done.

beautiful! thank you!

What an exceptionally beautiful and historic performance! Listening to the very ancient piece of music, 'Epitaph of Seikolos,' played on Greek instruments such as the lyre and Har-Mose lute, is a truly amazing and exciting experience. I highly recommend this video to all enthusiasts of historical music.

Thanks Brian! It was enlightening and very beautiful. The lute part's so hypnotizing, it took me away for a couple of minutes. Btw, it would be nice to see a tour on your instruments.

incredible i can vibe with it as a middle eastern that shows how middle eastern music is direct continiuty of Greco-Roman music

wonderful...my guitar weeps

.. working on an extensive immersive electronic music project ... this is already an absolutely inspiring reference ... thank you Sir for this gifting of a perfect introduction to this perfect masterpiece

Truly impressive and very beautiful, Brian. You continue to amaze!

This is absolutely incredible. Music is such an amazing thing and I feel like you’ve taken me back in time. Thank you for sharing this. Im extremely grateful people are keeping this stuff alive.

Thank you for sharing this! Great work! Bravo! :)

That is beautiful, and you have such a lovely voice.

Lovely. Love the instruments you made also. I like making these too! Beautiful!

Amazing work.

Amazing work! Glad to see a new video!

all together beautifully done

Bravo! Spin me back down the years and the days of my youth.

Absolutely lovley! I love your lyre playing technique!

Now this is worth subscribing to. Very well done.

Love this. Great job

Amazing! Bravo! Thanks a lot!

That's awesome and imperative. Great channel. A pleasure 🛶

Fascinating and beautiful. thank you!

Incredibly impressive. Very well done.

¡This is awesome! Thank you for sharing.

WOW!!! BEAUTIFUL instrument builds! SUBLIME performance! BRAVO!!!

Seems like you're farther along the same journey, making your own instruments because they're hard to come by. I just finished up building a lyre. One project I have in mind is building the instruments from Middle Earth, especially since music was fairly emphasized in the books. I kind of want to try to develop styles for dwarves and elves, but really focus on using the most appropriate things from older and newer traditions, really trying to get in deeper touch with the emotional and intuitive language of music. I've been thinking of producing some of these older instruments and figuring out how to market them, especially easy ones to make like the anglo saxon lyre. But, I also see these cheap 100 dollar lyre harps being fairly popular, and they don't fit any particular tradition, but rather are treated as a beginner instrument. I also have something in mind for that type of thing, but perhaps with more old world inspiration so that the instrument has more of that old world magic.

I love this Har Mose lute

Fretting with harmonics . No neck . Wonderful .

Can't stop wating it again and again.

Amazing.Love It.

It's honestly hard to imagine how a person could play such a song so flawlessly.

What a wonderful way to not lose a pick! Oh yeah, the music is beautiful and some very interesting techniques. Bravo.

That was beautiful ❤

Sophisticated .

Beautiful song, you can also hear well where the later music styles from the middle east came from.

Brian Kay Official - Absolutely fantastic.

Quality content as always.

I love your stuff. I tell everyone about you. Keep it up.

Awesome, I am writing a story where two of the characters often play music together one with a Lute one with a Lyre I searched to hear what it might sound like, i never heard a lyre before,

Thank you for a professional listen into the past.

this is excellent

Bro! You are a super badass! Respect!

Cool you did great 👍👍

Bro...u are..❤ great thank U❤

All that is missing is boisterous applause at the conclusion.

This hymnic style is between happiness and sadness. Today european music is too happy, while midlde eastern is too sad. Such middle ground feeling you can find at the edges of the map, papua ,sahel, in some parts of south east asia,maybe ireland

Epically wowed!

Incredible

Reminds me of the old days ❤

This is the origin of the guitar !

My home. In ancient days. Alula. Thanks for this. Untainted. Complete. Pure. We return to CREATOR knowing the truth. Our Souls DON'T speak English we speak Creator. I love love love love love love love love love love love you all. Your talent is amazing Artist work. Full circle to the True Humans that love CREATOR. Ancestors loving us still.....play on

Impressive!

Awesome

Here we go thats how you recall music properly. You need the original instruments.

You are special 💛🥇🌟

Nicely done I'm learning banjo and have been researching how ancient Sumerians tuned up , I can't figure out how to tune my 5 string banjo if I were to play along , what would you recommend ?

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exquisite

I love so much 😍✨✨✨✨💕💕

it reminds me of white rabbit jefferson airplane 4:36 only this is more pleasing to my ears

Cool rendition and beautifully sung as always. Did you diary the process of making the instruments at all?

Wow

Spectular.

The recreation of the instruments is awesome and the performance. Awesome there. I have problems with the version. Greek people loved simplicity, and the lyrics invites to relax and joy, you made it sound almost baroque, almost tedious. I could feel even the air of the sea in the melody, but not in your version

By any chance was this made into a single i want to put rhis on Spotify

Luteallica wrote this. From their album ride the chariot.

True frequencies of God. Thanks family

I've got a question. I'm trying to make a replica of the lute, and the only thing I've not found out yet is how the hide was attached to the body. How did you attach yours? Edit: in specifically talking about the one with 6 holes in the resonating membrane. It looks like you used nails or wooden pegs? Very interesting to think how they made these 3500 years ago

About what tuning are the instruments here? especially interested in the 3 stringed lute.

Wow....fuckin great

What is that image (vase painting?) at :55 from?

Wooooooooooow

Very interesting. Could you post the music sheet for those who want to try playing the first piece on another instrument?

Good morning, can i use a few seconds of your music inside a personal documentary?

What are you holding in your right hand while strumming the lyre? A microphone or a pic?

How did you discover how it tuned? I noticed in one of the old pictures shown here one guy is playing rhythm with a plectrum while the other fellow is playing lead with possibly a singer standing there. Could also be a listener.

Mi sorprende che ci siano tanti commenti entusiastici riguardo a musica modale di due millenni fa. Non risentendo di attrazioni tonali, non può che sonare alquanto vacua, abituati come siamo da quattro secoli alle più smaglianti architetture dei geni della musica tonale occidentale, da Monteverdi a Stravinskij

This makes me want to go and play Odyssey again-

What was the source for the musical accompaniment?

can i like get a download of some melodies you have with these instruments? am a producer the vocals are nice too

What is the tuning of the har mose

Almost modern music!