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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. — Lao Tzu

Rhythm can exist without melody, as in the drumbeats of so-called primitive music, but the melody cannot exist without rhythm.
In that mini-series with LyreAcademy.com and Lina Palera, a world-renowned lyre player, we are going to explore the ancient roots of today's rhythm and dive deeper into our shared ancient musical heritage.
Aristoxenus, the Greek peripatetic philosopher, will be our guide and to meet him we have to travel way back in time...

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🖋 Title: The Importance of Rhythm and Its Ancient Roots (Episode 1)
➿ Mini-series: Ancient Rhythms Decoded (5 episodes)
⏱ Duration: 4min 59sec
🎥 Film d'auteur: Nikolaos Koumartzis

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📜 Episode 1 - Transcription

When a melody comes to our mind, most of us perceive it as series of musical notes, and that's all. But, is it actually that all?
In a most literal sense, a melody is a combination of many more things, such as pitch, timbre, texture, and, of course... rhythm! To tell you the truth, for the majority of us, pitch and rhythm are the most apparent qualities that we can perceive when listening to a melody.

So, to truly unlock the ancient musical heritage, isn't enough to focus only on the musical notes of a surviving song, or the ancient musical scales. We need to dive deeper and try to discover what are the ancient roots of rhythm.
And for this, we must rely on the first authority of musical theory in the classical world, Aristoxenus. And to do that, we have to travel back in time...

Aristoxenus was a Greek peripatetic philosopher who flourished during the 4th century B.C.
He managed to build upon Pythagoras' monumental work, evolving some basic concepts of the latter. For example, according to Aristoxenus, the soul is for the body, what harmony is for a musical instrument (an idea that follows early Pythagorean theories).
But, Aristoxenus proved soon to be much more than a simple Pythagorean follower, having the courage to boldly differentiate himself from the legendary philosopher.
In his musical theory, he states that the notes of the scale should not be judged by mathematical ratio, but by our ear. Pan intended, Pythagora!

In his work, the Elements of Rhythm, he explains a great deal about the rhythms of the ancient world. Among others, he says that rhythm has many natures and reasons, and all of these can be perceived by the human senses!
Rhythm can be found everywhere, and, the most important, is always coming out from us: when we speak, when we sing, when we move.
In other words, for the ancient Greeks, rhythm can be found in:
speech
melody
dancing

So, what is rhythm?
If we approach a melody as a composition depending upon time, then the rhythm is the music's pattern in time. No matter what other elements a piece of music might have (pitch, timbre, et cetera), rhythm is its one indispensable element.
Actually, rhythm can exist without melody, as in the drumbeats of so-called primitive music, but the melody cannot exist without rhythm.