"Song of Selene" - track 2 from my album, "Kithara of the Golden Age":

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The kithara was the highly advanced, large wooden lyre favoured by only the true professional musicians of ancient Greece, which reached its pinnacle of perfection during the “Golden Age” of Classical Antiquity, circa 5th century BCE.

Both this album and my earlier release , "The Ancient Greek Kithara of Classical Antiquity" features the wonderfully recreated Kithara of the Golden Age of Classical Greece - hand-made in modern Greece by Luthieros:

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Selene, in ancient Greek mythology, was the goddess of the moon and the daughter of the Titans:

"She was depicted as a woman riding sidesaddle on a horse or driving a chariot drawn by a pair of winged steeds. Her lunar sphere or crescent was either a crown set upon her head or the fold of a raised, shining cloak. She was sometimes said to drive a team of oxen and her lunar crescent was likened to a pair of bull's horns.

Selene's great love was the shepherd prince Endymion. The beautiful boy was granted eternal youth and immortality by Zeus and placed in a state of eternal slumber in a cave near the peak of Lydian Mount Latmos (Latmus). His heavenly bride consorted with him there in the night."

(www.theoi.com/Titan/Selene.html)

In my attempt to try and evoke a feeling of the cold and eerie characteristics of moonlight in sound, this piece composed in the wonderfully intense and mournful sounding ancient Greek Hypodorian Mode (misnamed the 'Aeolian' mode in the Middle Ages, this mode, heard here in authentically pure just intonation, is the equivalent intervals as A-A on the white notes of the piano). This ancient Greek mode, the basis of our modern minor scales is also sometimes referred to as the 'Natural Minor Scale'.

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