An Ancient Greek Dance (Rhythmic Improvisation for Solo Lyre)

An highly rhythmic improvisation for solo chelys (tortoise shell form) lyre, based on a hauntingly evocative documented microtonal scale from ancient Greece, known as the Archytas enharmonic genus: The use of quarter tones in this ancient Greek scale adds an intensity to the resulting music improvised in it in an entirely different dimension to the artificial constraints of our monotonously standardized 12 note chromatic system. The lyre I am playing is t
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