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Best Of Michael Levy – Lyre Sheet Music of his Greatest Songs
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“There is no benefit when music stands secret and hidden.” — Lucian
Prepare to embark on a musical journey to the ancient world, while learning some of the most-beloved original melodies by Michael Levy, the well-known and prolific British lyre composer. Learn thirteen of his songs and let yourself (and your audience) to travel back to ancient Greece, Rome and other great ancient civilizations.
As Michael Levy says, “thanks to this almost infinite palette of tonal variations, coloured by the unique individual characteristics of each of the many ancient musical modes, almost an infinite number of wonderful melodies can be conjured out of the air with virtually no effort! The lyre truly was the magic wand of the ancients…”
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
“This Sheet Music Book 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.
The book is part of the Lyre Sheet Music series, in which some of the greatest lyre players around the world participate, including Lina Palera, Thanasis Kleopas, Theodore Koumartzis, Giorgio Sancristoforo, et cetera.
Pages: 28 | Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches
(some of the sheet music included are for a 9strings and some for a 11strings lyre or kithara)
Original price was: 22.00 €.17.60 €Current price is: 17.60 €.
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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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Best Of Michael Levy – Lyre Sheet Music of his Greatest Songs
Original price was: 22.00 €.17.60 €Current price is: 17.60 €.
