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12 Easy Melodies for the 5string Lyre (or for lyres with more than 5 strings)
19.00 €
“There is no benefit when music stands secret and hidden.” — Lucian
Learn your first songs on the lyre, including 5 ancient surviving melodies.
Including: Tetrasimon ✦ Exasimon ✦ Dodekasimon A ✦ Amazing Grace ✦ Dodekasimon B ✦ Okto & (Deka) simon ✦ Majestic ✦ Harmonics
“In this book, you will find a series of melodies ideal for learning for a beginner lyre player.” says Lina Palera, a world-renowned lyre player and much-beloved lyre instructor at the LyreAcademy.com. “In our effort to standardize the Greek lyre to make it easier to teach and produce specialized educational material, we adapted each of the melodies to the needs of a 5string lyre with the standard tuning of C4 D4 E4 F4 G4. ” In this book, you will find original ancient melodies, along with modern songs, ideal for anyone willing to take the first step and learn some easy melodies on his ancient lyre or kithara.
“This Sheet Music Book is one of our latest additions to our effort to enrich the available educational resources for lyre and lyre-like musical instruments,” Nikolaos Koumartzis, the series’ director, explains. The book is part of the Lyre Sheet Music series, in which some of the greatest lyre players around the world participate, including Thanasis Kleopas, Michael Levy, Theodore Koumartzis, Giorgio Sancristoforo, et cetera.
Pages: 24 | Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches
(sheet music for a 5strings lyre/kithara, or for lyres/kithara with more than 5 strings)
19.00 €
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^ 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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12 Easy Melodies for the 5string Lyre (or for lyres with more than 5 strings)
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