Michael Levy

About the artist

Michael Levy is a daring, experimental self-taught musician & prolific composer, who since 2006, has focused his unique skills, at both intensively researching & recreating the ancient playing-techniques of the lyres of antiquity. Basing these techniques from both illustrations of ancient lyre players and the various playing-techniques still practiced today in Africa, he has independently produced 14 albums of ancient lyre music in just over 3 years...

Top songs

1. "Hurrian Hymn no. 6" (c.1400BCE) - Ancient Mesopotamian Musical Fragment
2. The First Delphic Hymn To Apollo (Ancient Greek Melody c.138 BCE - Arranged For Replica Lyre)
3. Ode To Aphrodite (Original Composition For Replica Lyre in the Ancient Greek Hypodorian Mode)
4. Epitaph of Seikilos (Complete Ancient Greek Melody Composed by Seikilos, Son of Euterpe, 1st Century CE - Arranged For Replica Lyre)
5. Ode to Ancient Rome (Original Composition For Lyre in the Ancient Phrygian Mode)
6. Echoes of Ancient Rome (Original Composition for Replica Lyre in the Ancient Phrygian Mode)
7. Hurrian Hymn
8. The Temple of Mars (Original Composition for Replica Lyre in the Ancient Dorian Mode)
9. Hymn To The Muse (Mesomedes of Crete, c.130 CE - Arranged For Replica Lyre)
10. Mount Olympus (Original Composition For Replica Lyre in the Ancient Greek Hypophrygian Mode)

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