Dance of the Spartans - Ancient Greek Music
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2022
- Music by Farya Faraji, based on melodic folk motifs from Greece. I was inspired to write an immersive piece of music as close as possible to historical practices of Ancient Greece-please keep in mind that this isn’t meant to be entirely historically accurate music from Ancient Greece, although it’s closer to realistic compared to some of my more creative pieces. The instruments are all from the soundscape of Ancient Greece: the aulos, the lyre, and a mantoura-the latter is a simple reed instrument from Crete, and such instruments are attested in Ancient Greece. I based this on motifs found across Crete, the Cyclades and Thrace, since they are the modern day regions that still use such reed instruments like in Ancient Greece, and therefore their sound is our best bet, in my opinion, at reverse-engineering the most probable usage of these instruments throughout the Greek world, given that they were ubiquitous throughout Greece back then. The melody is possible given what we know of the historical practice, with the usage of the Phrygian mode (what we call today the Dorian mode), although it’s not certain how folk melodies for dances were built, and whether they were ornamented in such a way especially before the Roman era, were ornamentation becomes more increasingly used. Most of the creative aspect on my part lies in two aspects: the strumming of the lyre to provide a constant drone constituted of the tonic and it’s lower perfect fourth-strumming was a major part of lyre playing in Greece, however it seemed to have been melodic strumming. The sort of drone strumming I added to support the melody is entirely speculative, however it is based on common practice of heterophonic traditions of today, like in modern Greek traditional music, where an instrument will strum the tonic repeatedly as a steady drone. While this practice isn’t directly attested in Ancient Greek music, I consider it compatible with the heterophonic nature of this tradition, whose monophonic aspect is often exagerated.
A far more creative and less plausible aspect however is the usage of harmony-I switched the drone to the subtonic in moments of cadence, and also added a lower perfect fourth to the main drone. While far more creative in this aspect, the research of some specialists like Stefen Hagel suggests a far more prevalent use of harmony than usually believed. If harmony were to exist within the largely heterophonic and melodic framework of Ancient Greek music, I believe it would have come in the form the absolute simplest forms such as those found in the Cyclades or Thrace on which I based the harmonic aspects of this piece, where the lower perfect fourth sounded in unison with the tonic as well as cadence-ornamenting subtonic use is prevalent. Once again, the harmony I’ve included as well as the drone-strumming are not meant to indicate my belief of their presence in Ancient Greek music, but are rather my way of showing that there would have been different compositional techniques accompanying the melody beyond the pure monophony that we are often told Ancient Greek music functionned with-strumming of the tonic to produce a drone and very simple harmony may have well constituted the palette of this tradition, which I tried conveying here. - Hudba
Music by Farya Faraji, based on melodic folk motifs from Greece, including recordings of Ancient Greek musical instruments. I was inspired to write an immersive piece of music as close as possible to historical practices of Ancient Greece-please keep in mind that this isn’t meant to be entirely historically accurate music from Ancient Greece, although it’s closer to realistic compared to some of my more creative pieces. The instruments are all from the soundscape of Ancient Greece: the aulos, the lyre, and a mantoura-the latter is a simple reed instrument from Crete, and such instruments are attested in Ancient Greece. I based this on motifs found across Crete, the Cyclades and Thrace, since they are the modern day regions that still use such reed instruments like in Ancient Greece, and therefore their sound is our best bet, in my opinion, at reverse-engineering the most probable usage of these instruments throughout the Greek world, given that they were ubiquitous throughout Greece back then. The melody is possible given what we know of the historical practice, with the usage of the minor modes, although it’s not certain how folk melodies for dances were built, and whether they were ornamented in such a way especially before the Roman era, were ornamentation becomes more increasingly used. Most of the creative aspect on my part lies in two aspects: the strumming of the lyre to provide a constant drone constituted of the tonic and it’s lower perfect fourth-strumming was a major part of lyre playing in Greece, however it seemed to have been melodic strumming. The sort of drone strumming I added to support the melody is entirely speculative, however it is based on common practice of heterophonic traditions of today, like in modern Greek traditional music, where an instrument will strum the tonic repeatedly as a steady drone. While this practice isn’t directly attested in Ancient Greek music, I consider it compatible with the heterophonic nature of this tradition, whose monophonic aspect is often exagerated.
A far more creative and less plausible aspect however is the usage of harmony-I switched the drone to the subtonic in moments of cadence, and also added a lower perfect fourth to the main drone. While far more creative in this aspect, the research of some specialists like Stefen Hagel suggests a far more prevalent use of harmony than usually believed. If harmony were to exist within the largely heterophonic and melodic framework of Ancient Greek music, I believe it would have come in the form the absolute simplest forms such as those found in the Cyclades or Thrace on which I based the harmonic aspects of this piece, where the lower perfect fourth sounded in unison with the tonic as well as cadence-ornamenting subtonic use is prevalent. Once again, the harmony I’ve included as well as the drone-strumming are not meant to indicate my belief of their presence in Ancient Greek music, but are rather my way of showing that there would have been different compositional techniques accompanying the melody beyond the pure monophony that we are often told Ancient Greek music functionned with-strumming of the tonic to produce a drone and very simple harmony may have well constituted the palette of this tradition, which I tried conveying here.
I absolutely adore your commitment to history. I’ve always wanted to understand how things were, felt, sounded, looked like, etc., and even though it isn’t truly accurate, I respect and appreciate the amount of effort you put in to make these masterpieces. Another banger!
Божевілля? Ні - ЦЕ СПАРТА!!!!!
we all love your music, this shows a sign you never give up, keep it up!
твоя музыка великолепна. можешь исполнить татарскую музыку?
I like how I always learn something from reading these
As a Greek my self and especially from the city of Sparta, i feel very honoured! Thank you farya!
What a Greek Nazi???
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@@kostas9718 Τούς ξέρω όμως, δεν ξέρω όλον τους τα βιογραφικά
@@theodoruspantelides8661 and what are you talking about there?
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As a Greek I absolutely LOVE your Ancient Greek/Byzantine music...Keep up the amazing work!
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@@theodoruspantelides8661 cringe
@@nihil_hd1598 why
@@goldentoaster9302 greeks have no culture its turkic
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Props to you for time travelling 2000+ years to record this 👌
Thanks, no one appreciates the time travelling part 😢
@@faryafarajiЯ ценю. Уже не один.
@@faryafarajiAmazing recording equipment for the time period 👍
@faryafaraji love from antartica🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶
I am surprised by the name, since this is considered as typical Cretan music and not associated with the Peloponnese at all, at least today. Your interpretation and composition is awesome. Amazing!
The instruments you hear in this composition were once used all across Greece 2500 years ago. I used Cretan, Cycladic and Thracian traditions that still use these instruments to get some idea of how Ancient Greeks across the Greek world would have used them. It seemed wiser to me to simulate Peleponesian use of reed instruments like the mantouras by using extant tradition rather than using only my creativity. I think we associate the use of these reed instruments with specific regions of Greece like Thrace and Crete today, but they were universal throughout Ancient Greece back then, and we know Spartans used them too :)
Crete and the Peloponnese were closing connected during the times of Mycenean Greece.
Totally agree that the two regions don't share a whole lot musically today but don't forget that the Dorians migrated to the Peloponnese and Crete during the Mycenaean period. Sparta and Crete shared the Doric dialect and you can look up Lato, close to Agios Nikolaos, as an example of one of their colonies on Crete.
@@eho6380 I used recordings from Ancient Greek reconstructionists. My guess is you find this too different from the recordings of Ancient Greek music available on CZcams right now.
Most performances on CZcams are of “higher class” musicians like Mesomedes, often very slow, and use principally the lyre and little percussive drives. Little effort yet has been in done in trying to approximate what a folk dance would have sounded like, which is what I’m doing: providing an approximation of a type of Ancient Greek performance that there are very little if no recordings of at all.
In other words, it would be like only having heard a specific type of American music, say Black Gospel, and then rejecting other forms of American music like country as being “quite off from American music”. Comparing the Delphic hymns or Mesomedes’ pieces, which is what all reconstructions on CZcams are, to an approximation of a folk dance, and especially believing them to be representative of the entirety of Ancient Greek music misses the mark in that regard. I’d invite you to read my pinned comment to get an idea of the research and historical practices involved in this.
Probably not a valid point from me but they were both ethnically Dorian, in ancient times the legendary Lycurgus supposedly borrowed pieces of the culture from Crete among others. Again, pseudo hypothesis from someone who’d love to accept this as Laconic.
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This song sounds like it would play over a joyous fight.
I'm sure the ancient Spartans would adore this
thought so too, rather a festive song/dance song. Love
This sounds historically real. Ancient Greece was colorful, full of rich painted temples, gorgeous clothing, intricate patterns, wild and beautiful and powerful and human.
I left a whole half of my heart in Ancient Greece because of Assassins Creed Odyssey. This channel is magical!
Same, I adore that game!
Playing it right now while listening to this tune as we speak
Me too. It’s felt like heaven
Glad to hear that im not the only one
same
You never fail to impress with your epic ancient music. It's a time machine, I tell you!!!
Athenians : "Pericles, The Spartans are outside the walls!"
Pericles : "Let's hope the walls will hold"
Spartans outside the walls of Athens :
Athenians: The Spartans are drunk and dancing, shall we open fire on them strategos?
Percicles: lmao no this beat is fire af
@@faryafaraji bhahahaha🤣🤣🤣
Athenian Hoplite : *Starts dancing quietly over the wall*
Athenian Archer : *Starts vibing and moving his head*
@@faryafaraji This is exactly like the meme of Obama awarding himself.
@@a09_elwadiya91 It’s ok I basically copied Greek folk music so it’s me giving a medal to the souvlaki people
Greetings from Sparta , Greece
awesome music for one more time
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La antigua Grecia
La cuna del conocimiento...
Agradecido con los dioses de su existencia y sus conocimientos
Me encanta toda tu musica y esta se ha convertido en mi pieza favorita,un saludo desde España
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Great music. As a person with Armenian roots, I can say that this evokes certain feelings of nostalgia for the times when people lived on these lands and had such a culture. Thanks to national food, music and architecture, we can remember the very history of mankind through the grains of the culture of these people. With love from Russia!
This shit makes me wanna crip walk through Greece
whats good my nikephoros
As an albanian, ive been listening to your tracks for weeks now. Beautiful
glory to Skanderbeg a Christian and Albanian Hero!
"Eat well, for tonight we dine in Hades...."
Great track, thanks for posting!
This was straight fire from the opening, had me literally clapping so hard my hand burned in the first 5 seconds lmao
Same (:
I get emotional of this song not only because I am from Sparta(Laconia specific). but because of t videos like that reminds us the huge ancient valuable culture of Greece
Abolutamente divino!
Glórias aos espartanos, a lendária tribo dórica descendente de Hércules!
Thanks my friend
Los Helenos fueron un pueblo que nos dejó un gran legado, admirables por su naturaleza curiosa que los llevó a buscar de todo, teniendo desde pueblos guerreros y en extremo apegados a las leyes y el honor como los Laecedemonios/Espartanos, pueblos navegantes y conquistadores como los Foceos, hasta estados gobernados bajo filósofos como Tarento alguna vez y hasta Atenas bajo Pericles y Cremonides, grandes conquistadores como Dionisio I de Siracusa con sus ingenios para conquistar como el Gastrafetes (La primera ballesta en occidente), Alejandro Magno con la falange de su padre con la que conquistó el mundo, Pirro de Epiro con su valor y respeto a sus enemigos y no solo eso, sino también su ingenio, etcétera, nos dejó hasta a Hipócrates de Cos, el padre de la medicina, Tales de Mileto, el que es tenido por Aristóteles por el primer Filósofo siendo seguido por otros Jonios y después otros Helenos, aportes en las matemáticas bajo Pitágoras que influenciaron bastante a Platón en sus escritos y posteriormente al resto del mundo, también los Helenos nos dejaron hasta el primer Historiador que fue Heródoto, fueron tales sus formas que influenciaron en gran medida tanto a Cartagineses como Romanos, lo que serían los grandes poderes del Mediterráneo junto a en un principio Etruscos y la mayor parte de pueblos Itálicos e incluso en gran medida Ibéricos en la costa, los Helenos fueron grandes exploradores con hombres como Escilax y otros más que llegaron hasta Britania, simplemente maravillosos los Helenos.
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This sounds everytime I get mad with my persian roommate.
You are a hidden gem. How have you not received any contracts to write soundtracks for TV shows, films, and videogames?
The dude is not only a genius musically, I have mad respect for his knowledge in music traditions and how objective he tries to be. Top musician
Farya will get there someday and one day we will all say "THAT GUY STARTED OUT WRITING EPIC MUSIC FOR PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET AND NOW HE'S REACH THE TOP, THAT'S MY FAVORITE MUSICIAN AND I AM PROUD OF FARYA FARAJI"
@@justinianthegreat1444 Think of all the historical and fantasy video games out there: Assassin's Creed, God of War, Civilization, The Witcher, The Elder Scrolls, etc. Imagine the untapped potential of having FF's music as a badass soundtrack
@@naevan1 Honestly dude I’m not anything close to a genius, if you look at my music it’s just copying ethnic styles well lol. I’m a good imitator :p
@@linagreenlyfe6705 I do some contracts for indie games or small short films etc
It's amazing.. And it's quite similar to native Canaanite Levantine music
And anatolian music
The amount of Hellenic heritage gets downplayed a lot in that region. The influence of the Hellenistic kingdoms and the very Greek Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire on Lebanon and Palestine was insanely strong. Not only did the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic populations call themselves "Roman" (as the Greeks did until the independence movement which was largely supported by philhellenic westerners who tended to have a very low opinion of the ERE) and were considered Greeks by western ethnographers into the 1800s, but a blood protein marker associated with Ancient Macedonians has quite common among Levantine Christians
This would be great for a movie about Ancient Greece that tried to aim for accuracy
Sadly, nonexistent.
This makes me want to lead my band of three hundred Spartans against a ten thousand strong Persian force...This is beyond epic. I'm a huge fan of Ancient Greece and this is the closest we can get to experiencing what it was like. Thank you!
Tens of thousands... hundreds of thousands...
@@DivineHellas Lol that's an exaggeration
@@DivineHellas at most it was tens of thousands, i think it was between 40 - 75 thousand Persians, not literal hundreds of thousands.
And the Greek force that was assembled for Thermopylae was around 7,000 troops, so yeah the whole 300 spartans story is a myth.
Let me explain, there was 300 spartans and Leonidas, yes, but there was around 6,700 other Greeks there with them.
Sparta was just propaganda in the shape of a country.
@@DemonicAthen Only 300 Spartans and ~1400 other Greeks fought in the battle of Thermopylae. Yes, there were initially ~7,000 Greeks but most were dismissed to fight other battles in Salamis, Mycale, and Plataea.
@@dezmonasg6708 I really should've mentioned that, I apologize.
Absolutely love it. I feel myself dancing through the streets of Athens with a jug of wine while we sing praise to Olympus during a festival of some kind.
Check God Dionysus for that festival of yours 😂
@@tho1468 I am familiar with Dionysus lol. I am creating a statue of him for an art project actually.
Reject paganism, embrace Orthodoxy! 😄☦️
@@mihajlocolic01 reject modernity, embrace tradition. Embrace the elder gods who spawned you.
@@herpderp728 Yeah the Gods lmao what is wrong with you
This and your Thermopylae symphony have taught me the beauty of Greek music.
Great stuff! Love ancient Greek music
What music do you listen? "It's complicated"
Surprisingly, it sounds a lot like bandari music with bagpipes in Iran!
I found this channel few days ago and i have no words to describe how impressed I am with your activity. Its just amazing! God blees you
Pretty cool music. I look forward to listening to it when I drive to and from work like with your other songs.
Really cool and very appreciated that you play a part in keeping these cultures alive in your own special way.
you always hit the nail on the head with greek music, i love it I will probably go on to listen to it for 10 weeks.
Absolutely love it. We need more of this!
As a Greek/Cretan im feelng lucky to found this channel.
Farya Faraji thank you for your time and the stuff.
Thank you for making this! Love your work.
Farya is literally keeping ancient culture alive, especially in Persian and Greek cultures both of which have been suppressed and Islamized, I’m Syrian and will fight to keep this culture alive ♥️
I just say "wow". An amazing job Farya!
I´m hooked Farya, so nice to have found your channel!
My fav song from all of faryas songs
Bro...... THIS IS AN ABSALOUTE BANGA
How do you come up with all this music so quickly? It's astonishing.
Fantastic work Farya!
Cada vez que sacas un tema nuevo, resulta ser mejor que el anterior, desde hace tiempo buscaba un ritmo como éste, eres el mejor, saludos desde latinoamerica ❤️😎
Absoulutely in Love with the Aluos and the Tsabouna because it sounds like Bagpipes, Love it.
Thank you Farya🤟
THIS IS A JAM!!! Thank you for creating this masterpiece
Very good bro! Respect to Türkiye 🇹🇷
Çok teşekkürler dostum! Respect from Canada!
Farya just dropped another banger!
this is epic man keep it up!
Thank you Very much for share all the Amazing music! Loving de Chanel!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 👏👏👏
We have to call you: " Master of Old Spirit Vibrations"
Great thanks from Albania 🌚🌞🙏
I personally have waited for someone ho recreates like this old songs and melodies.🫀🔥👏👏👏
Beautiful composition, thank you for making this🙂
This is catchy and uplifting! Masterful work !
The chanel , the Music, it's just fascinating and amazing. I absolutely enjoy to listen to your music. May this chanel unite all of the History lovers from each parts of the world 🖤🖤
meu amigo, que música incrível, um bom trabalho como sempre!
Brother love your music so much keep doing your beutifal work ✊🏼🇷🇴🇵🇹 ♥
Great job as always!
You deserve more, more views and subscribers.. your stuff is good.. Cheers from NYC
Love the music unfortunately while I was visiting Greece I didn’t have the opportunity to hear this great music.
Thank you ❤
Beautiful, love from A Greek🇨🇾💙
I cant get enough of this song! 💕
Magnificent!!!, I like it so much, very well done 👌👌
I been looking for this exactly 💯
This is a total banger 🔥. Listening on repeat.
I applaud and salute your work. You bring my past closer to me.
Thanks alot Joseph!
Farya, if you ever are so inclined to do so, I highly encourage any composition from you of the music from Magna Graecia, the land of my ancestors. I would love to hear either a reconstruction or hear your interpretation of the music of those Hellenized Near Eastern peoples that settled in Southern Italy. (Especially Calabria where my family comes from). We use an ancient drum known in the various dialects as a “tamburreddhu” or tamburello in Italian, that came from North Africa and/or Near East. It hasn’t changed form in millennia and it’s still integral to the music there today.
This music is so good!
I played it on loop for around 3 hours when i was traveling on plane! It helped me sleep through the majority of the flight despite the constant vibration caused by the engines.
Bloody magical work!
Our old friends❤(from Persia)
Piękna i nastrojowa - dziękuje !
THANK YOU!!!!!!❤❤❤❤
man your chanel is a bigger goldmine than the lonely mountain
Excellent as always
Κάλλιστα ἐποίησας, ὦ φίλε!
This had absolutely no right going as hard as it did
🇮🇳♥️🇬🇷 Our Indo European Brothers
amazing
It's exactly the same music we ply in our weddings in syria 🇸🇾 🎶 .
Same in lebanon
I must say this is a very inspired folk piece! It makes me feel kind of like a villager dancing with my neighbours around the fire at night hearing this song play as everyone contributes a sound.
Day by day you're making progress developed....
1:58 I can only imagine an army of Spartans and Athenians battling to the death
Farya, brother you are miracle! God bless you
this shit still hits hard after 2000+ years
Never fails to impress!
Merveilleux !!!! On sent l'odeur du thym, de la viande grillée, de l'huile d'olive et du vin acre, et on entend les pas en en rythme et les lances cogner les boucliers ! Excellent travail de reconstitution, très fidèle, des instruments d'époque et des airs d'espaces géographiques identitiques ou proches, et y'a pas mieux !
From Honduras... I greet you! This is pretty awesome!
Wow again such an impressive song
Love and valory for grecia🇬🇷 from kurdistan ☀☀☀
Very nice my friend
I am not Greek but I love the music amd culture. I was looking into ancient Greek religion and culture as a polythesist. I literally teared up listening to this thinking how happy it makes me to feel so free.
Another piece of art from the master himself.
Great. Especially with an Alpha beer you mind goes back thousands of years ago when the real hero's where here (I'm in Litohoro actually). Leonidas, Temistocles, Miltiades..... Listening this music my my mind travels back and I really enjoy it❤
Beautiful
Bro you are such a great musician, believe me your musics are so similar to their culture not like other fake fantasy musics.
here from the thermopylae video. Absolute banger
Great piece, i love it! I do have a question though, is there any real difference between music from Sparta and other greek places such as Athens, Thebes or Macedonia?
Are you asking about the ancient period or the present?
@@stavropoulosvasileios7762 The ancient period
@@markscf4654 I don't think we have enough findings or knowledge to correctly answer that, but if I had to make a guess I believe their music would be more homogeneous than it is now.
Definitely agree with Stavropoulos. The incredible regional variation found today would have been even more pronounced back then although we don’t have any mentions or clues when it comes to how the regional styles differed. All I know is that today, instruments will greatly characterise regional sounds-the Lauto is only used for chords in Nisiotika, but it can be used to carry the melody in Cretan music, for example, and then you won’t have bagpipes generally in the Peleponnese. Ancient Greek instruments seemed to have been largely the same throughout the regions so most of the regional styles would probably emerge from different playing styles, melodic motifs preferences, etc
@@faryafaraji I see, thanks for the answer!
Sa e bukur kjo 👏
This is a banger,it is too good
Big like for spartan warriors,
Α ρε μόρτη, well done as always Farya.