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Starter Pack (8 books combo) – 20% discount
Original price was: 171.00 €.136.00 €Current price is: 136.00 €.
“There is no benefit when music stands secret and hidden.”
— Lucian
This combo starter pack includes 8 books and 75+ songs in total! Specifically, it includes: Best of Thanasis Kleopas – Lyre Sheet Music of his Greatest Songs ✦ Best Of Michael Levy – Lyre Sheet Music of his Greatest Songs ✦ 9 Songs to Discover the Ancient Greek Modes – Lyre Sheet Music ✦ 9 Ancient Melodies that Survive to This Day – Lyre Sheet Music ✦ 9 Easy Melodies for Beginners – Lyre Sheet Music ✦ AURORA Songs by Lina Palera – Lyre Sheet Music ✦ Best Of Theodore Koumartzis – 10 melodies for the 9-string lyre ✦ 12 Easy Melodies for the 5-string Lyre (or for lyres with more than 5 strings)
The combo is ideal for everyone willing to advance their lyre or kithara playing while learning dozens of ancient and modern melodies.
Songs’ list: Apollo’s Lyre ✦ Ode to Ancient Rome ✦ Hymn to Zeus ✦ The Golden Age of Pericles ✦ The Only Thing Certain is Uncertainty ✦ Ode to Aphrodite ✦ Lamentations of the Algea ✦ The Song of Calliope ✦ Tears of the Hyades ✦ Nero’s Lyre ✦ Glory of the Parthenon ✦ The Lyre of Thamyris ✦ Hymn to Persephone ✦ Lima ✦ Dancing ✦ Luce ✦ Nocturne ✦ Seven ✦ Perception ✦ Fiori ✦ Clearness ✦ Equal ✦ Oktasemos – Decasemos ✦ Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus ✦ Homeric Hymn to Demeter ✦ Hurrian Hymn to Goddess Nikkal ✦ Seikilos Epitaph ✦ 1st Delphic Hymn ✦ 2nd Delphic Hymn ✦ Hymn to Muse Calliope ✦ Hymn to Nemesis ✦ Tetrasemon ✦ Hexasemon ✦ Dodekasemon ✦ Melody in 6/8 rhythm ✦ Happy Birthday to You ✦ The River ✦ Kolon Hexasemon ✦ Old Times ✦ Embrace ✦ Syzygy ✦ Une Mélodie d’Alger ✦ Adonis ✦ Beam of light ✦ Siren’s Call ✦ Nyx ✦ Ethereal Dance ✦ Drama’s Bridge ✦ Hymn to Muse Kalliope & Apollo ✦ I Wish I Were Wind ✦ Immortal’s Wish Look at Me Sweet Love ✦ Ode to the Sun ✦ On the oleander’s blossom ✦ Perfume ✦ Journey ✦ Awake ✦ Almanecer ✦ Belenus ✦ Whispers ✦ L’Heptade ✦ Anahit ✦ Caledonia Waterfalls ✦ Boundaries ✦ Icarus ✦ Tetrasemon (5-string version) ✦ Hexasemon (5strings version) ✦ Dodekasemon A (5-string version) ✦ Amazing Grace ✦ Dodekasemon B (5-string version) ✦ Okto & (Deka) simon (5-string version) ✦ Majestic ✦ Harmonics
The Lyre Sheet Music series features some of the greatest lyre players around the world, including Thanasis Kleopas, Michael Levy, Theodore Koumartzis, Lina Palera, and more.
“This series of Sheet Music Books is our latest addition to our effort to enrich the available educational resources for lyre and lyre-like musical instruments,” Nikolaos Koumartzis, the series’ director, explains.
Pages: 202 in total | Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches
(sheet music for the lyre or the ancient kithara)
Original price was: 171.00 €.136.00 €Current price is: 136.00 €.
A Lyre Sheet Music Series
Learn using sheet music and tablatures specially designed for your instrument
Historic Accuracy & Playability
It's not a battle. It's about finding the right balance.
^ Linus, the legendary lyre teacher, along with one of his students, Musaeus. This is one of the earliest surviving school scenes, and it is depicted on an Attic red figured kylix, ca. 450-400 BCE. Attributed to Eritrea Painter. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.
< Linus, the legendary lyre teacher, along with one of his students, Musaeus. This is one of the earliest surviving school scenes, and it is depicted on an Attic red figured kylix, ca. 450-400 BCE. Attributed to Eritrea Painter. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.
Bringing Ancient Artifacts Back to Life
Re-inventing the ancient lyre and re-introducing it to the modern world is an act that can directly connect us to our ancient heritage. Giving a voice to a musical instrument silenced for two thousand years and more is our way of paying our deed to the great minds of the ancient world.
Sheet music books, also known as scorebooks or songbooks, played a vital role in popularising mainstream musical instruments since the first was published in 1501 in the Venetian Republic by Ottaviano Petrucci. With such an abundance of scorebooks for the guitar or the piano, it is not by accident that modern lyre players are striving to learn using educational material that was not designed for their instruments.
So, how can a lyre scorebook be published when there are so many different types of lyres out there with entirely different tunings, note orientation, or number of strings? The solution is straightforward (but not easy): we have to standardize the lyre as the modern classical guitar was back in the 19th century by Antonio de Torres Jurado, Ignacio Fleta, Hermann Hauser Sr., and Robert Bouchet.
And this is exactly what we have been up to for the last decade. So, this Sheet Music Book is our latest addition to our effort to enrich the available educational resources for the lyre and lyre-like musical instruments.
References
Hawkins, J. (1776). A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, Cambridge University Press.
King, A. H. (1968). Four Hundred Years of Music Printing, Trustees of the British Museum, London.
Pöhlmann, E. (1970). Denkmäler altgriechischer Musik. Sammlung, Übertragung und Erläuterung aller Fragmente und Fälschungen
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Starter Pack (8 books combo) – 20% discount
Original price was: 171.00 €.136.00 €Current price is: 136.00 €.
