How to play the shabbat hymn "Yigdal" on the lyre

In this lesson, you learn how to play the haunting melody to "Yigdal"; one of the the closing hymns traditionally sung at the end of the Shabbat Service.

"Yigdal" is in the Melodic Minor Mode - so common to all ancient Jewish melodies. The 10 strings of the Kinnor are tuned, lowest string to highest:

DEbFG(tonic)ABbCDEbF

The notes of the melody are:

low D GABbC highD, G
C high D EbC high D, C
Bb C highD EbF, Eb high D CBb,Bb
high D high D high D high D C,
ABb high D CBbA, low D
GABbC high D Eb high D CBbAG

In the second section of this lesson, I demonstrate how it is possible to make the melody much more musically interesting, by the addition of some basic harmony. The use of basic harmony certainly was used by the ancients...for a start, it is literally impossible to tune a lyre in the first place, if one does not know what the intervals of the 4th and 5th and octave actually SOUND like!