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THE LOST JEWISH MUSIC OF HUNGARY...REVIVED! NB!!! For all updates on the progress of my first CD album, "KING DAVID'S LYRE; ECHOES OF (More) NB!!! For all updates on the progress of my first CD album, "KING DAVID'S LYRE; ECHOES OF ANCIENT ISRAEL", please visit my Myspace website : http://www.myspace.com/jubalslyre OY VEY! This video could best be described as the PAIN of 3000 years of hardship & oppression...represented in NOISE!!;0) I have created the world's FIRST ever "Musical Marmite" here...I am increasingly FASCINATED, by the myriad of either "love it" or "loath it" comments to this squeaky little "musical" experiment!?!;o) Never have comments to my any of my videos ever been so TOTALLY polar... This is my 1st, AMAZINGLY poor, electric fiddle arrangement (YUCK!) on Youtube, of an AMAZING tune,"Khosid Dance"; demonstrating the fusion of Jewish and Romanian-style Gypsy Music which existed in Hungary, prior to the totally pointless destruction of both these communities and their fabulous lost cultures, during the Holocaust... I heard it on a CD called "The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania"(Hanniabal 1973) - http://www.muzsikas.hu/pages/jewish.htm This recording uniquely features the playing of Gentile musicians who played these very melodies with Jewish musicians, and also at Jewish Weddings in Hungary before World War II; thus preserving a precious remnant of the amazing Hungarian Jewish/Gypsy culture which once so wonderfully merged & thrived together. The melodies have familiar Jewish-sounding scales/modes, but show the Gypsy/Romanian influence in the both the forms of the dance music. For example, the "Hora" and the "Doina" - styles adopted by Eastern European Jewish Klezmer musicians which were taken directly from both Gypsy music & the native traditional dance music from their Eastern European host countries. This is often reflected in the titles of some of the most popular melodies of the surviving Jewish Klezmer music repertoire heard today eg "Yiddish Honga","Kandle's Hora", "Russian Sher" or "Odessa Bulgar" etc Also, the violin playing heard in these few surviving Hungarian Jewish melodies has a much "fuller" fiddle style/sound, than the much more ornamented, sinuous, almost "vibrato-free" fiddle styles of Jewish Eastern European Klezmer - as can BEST be heard in the recording of the simply stunning Klezmer fiddle playing of Alicia Svigals - http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_m/103-5192471-3955056?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=alicia+fidl+klezmer&x=10&y=19). I apologize in advance, for the "rough edges" in my playing of it - I am entirely self-taught in all the instruments I play...just like most of the Klezmorium of old, I never had the money or the opportunity to take (much needed!!)violin lessons :o( The ONLY advantage my electic fiddle has, in this horrible arrangement of the melody..is that the added reverb helps hide my squeaky, self-taught bowing "technique"!;o) For the benefit of all the utterly dull "music critic types" out there, who relentlessly keep harassing me, I must also emphasise (YET AGAIN!)that this is simply my own ARRANGEMENT of some of the melodies I heard on the Musikas CD...I don't do dry, academic "note for note" renditions of ANYTHING...unlike you lot, I possess a SOUL!!!;o) NB!!! Please check out my MUCH improved perfomance of this fantastic melody...mercifully ditching the awful electric fiddle used here, for my beautiful, 254 year old acoustc one - handmade in 1753 by the London luthier Remerus Liessem...& bought in 1998 by me in a 2nd hand store in Manchester - for just a few hundred quid!;o) The URL for my new, acoustic version of this melody on Youtube is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itesmBN-uuE VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!! I am in the process of recording my 1st EVER CD album - it is going to be of the solo lyre music heard on my Youtube Channel...I'm thinking of calling it "King David's Lyre; Musical Adventures in Time Travel" - a selection of ancient Egyptian,& ancient Jewish melodies, all arrangemed & performed on my amazing replica of the ancient Jewish "Kinnor" - the lyre of King David, and of my own Levite ancestors; last played by them, in the Temple of Jerusalem over 2000 years ago, to accompany the singing of the Levitical Choir...WATCH THIS SPACE! Let us all celebrate our differences, instead of wiping out any one group of people, just because they are deemed to be "different"...if music can "Capture the Soul of a People", then may my humble (slightly squeaky!) little video here, be a tribute to the amazing Jewish & Gypsy music & culture which once existed in Hungary & indeed, the rest of Eastern Europe, which for the most part, tragically, is now forever lost... (Less)
KLEZMER MUSIC - PLAYED ON THE ANCIENT JEWISH TEMPLE LYRE! Another track from my CD "KING DAVID'S LYRE; ECHOES OF ANCIENT ISRAEL". For all (More) Another track from my CD "KING DAVID'S LYRE; ECHOES OF ANCIENT ISRAEL". For all updates on the progress of my first CD album, please visit my Myspace website :
http://www.myspace.com/jubalslyre
The ancient Jewish Kinnor was once played by King David himself, 3000 years ago, as he danced before the very Ark of the Covenant...
For almost 1000 years, the mystical resonance of the Kinnor could be heard wafting through the groves of olive Trees from the Temple Mount, where it was played by my very own Levite ancestors in the courtyard of the Temple of Jerusalem, to accompany the almost legendary singing of the Levitical Choir...
Following the tragic destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70AD by the Roman Legions under Titus, and after almost 2000 years of empty, desolate silence, the haunting, ancient, mystical resonance of King David's Lyre can now be hear AGAIN...in my spare room, Salford, Lancashire!! ;o)
The Kinnor Lyre I am playing in this video is a replica, based on a contemporary illustration of the kinnor on the back of an ancient Jewish coin - photographs of this very coin can be viewed on my Channel page!
This is my somewhat unique arrangement, of the almost mesmorizingly MYSTICAL, traditional Jewish Klezmer melody, "Berdichiever Khosid", played on my replica of King David's Lyre!!
The melody was first recorded way back in 1916 by an anonymous Jewish Orchestra...but all Klezmer music has it's basis mostly in the ancient "Ahava Raba" scale, which has it's origins in the cantorial chants sung in the synagogue - the origins of these chants and the scales on which they are based, go way, way back to the ancient, long forgotten times, of the music which was sung by the Levitical Choir in the Temple of Jerusalem, and the orchestra of lyres and harps which accompanied them...
Amazingly, possible descendants of the ancient Jewish Kinnor can still be heard today! In East Africa, a lyre called the "Begena", can STILL be heard in Ethiopia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sWjMgANo5o
According to Ethiopian tradition, Menelik I brought the instrument to Ethiopia from Israel. He is traditionally believed to be the son of King Solomon of ancient Israel and Makeda; the Queen of Sheba. Menelik I (originally named Ebna la-Hakim, "Son of the Wise"), was the first Jewish Emperor of Ethiopia and founder of the Solomonic Dynasty.
There is also a fascinating Ethiopian Tradition that Menelik I brought the actual Ark of the Covenant to Ethiopia, before of the impending destruction of Solomon's Temple in 586 BC by the Babylonians. Also according to Ethiopian tradtion, this is where 3000 years later, the Ark still remains, in the Orthodox Church in Axum...
Significantly, the Ethiopian Begena Lyre ALSO has 10 strings - IDENTICAL in number to the 10 sheep gut strings of the original, ancient Hebrew Kinnor of King David!!!
Indeed, one of the very earliest illusrations depicting the ancient Jewish Kinnor (on a the tomb painting of Knumhotpe, from c.1892 BC) is almost IDENTICAL to the Begena:
http://www.hebrewhistory.info/factpapers/fp010-2_egypt.htm
Another stikingly similar instrument to the Kinnor which is played in Eritrea in East Africa is the "Krar":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HkUWHDeb5E
Singnificantly, the instrument is held horizontally, just as depicted in ancient illustrations of Semitic Kinnor lyre players:
http://www.katapi.org.uk/MusicOfTheBible/Ch1.htm
If ever there was evidence for the historical King Solomon, I think the existence of these kinds of lyres in East Africa is IT!
Isn't it AMAZING what you can dig up on the Net??? :o) (Less)
Traditional Jewish Music 
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