Timeline of European Art and Music - The Ninth Century BC

Music

0:00 - Circa 9th century BC - Phorminx - One of the oldest of the Ancient Greek stringed musical instruments, in the yoke lutes family, intermediate between the lyre and the kithara.

2:13 - Circa 9th century BC - Phorminx - Most probably originated from Mesopotamia. While it seems to have been common in Homer's day, accompanying the rhapsodes, it was supplanted in historical times by the seven-stringed kithara.

3:51 - Circa 9th century BC - Phorminx - Santoorinio-style playing. Santorini is an island in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece

8:19 - Circa 9th century BC - Phorminx and aulos - The Phorminx probably originated from Mesopotamia