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Hesiodâs Theogony – Lyre Sheet Music
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“There is no benefit when music stands secret and hidden.” â Lucian
If there is a single name that stands alongside that of Homer in its importance in Greek letters and their legacy trough time, then that is definitely the name of Hesiod.
The Theogony has long been considered a short of âsourcebookâ for ancient Greek mythology and the genealogy of the gods. Having already spoken of the Dodecatheon, or the Twelve Major Gods of Greek mythology, in our other sheet music books, this one will be focused on something different.
Instead of the great gods of classical Greece, we shall encounter more primordial deities, elemental forces, as well as personifications not found in the major gods. We will see the world as the ancients saw it before the emergence of the anthropomorphic Olympians and Zeusâ indisputable rule, a world filled with the original forces of nature and creation, as Hesiodâs cosmology would have them, before the arrival of a kind of reason, with the rise of the gods.
This is a curated selection of stories & verses from the great epic so that you can narrate its key moments with your lyre, adding some of the most significant and compelling stories of the ancient world to your repertoire.
Songs’ list: Invocation to the Muses ⌠The Call ⌠The Primordial Gods ⌠The Cyclopes and the Ekatoncheires ⌠All the terrible things ⌠Eris ⌠Children of the Sea ⌠Monsters and Nightmares ⌠Styx ⌠The House of Styx and the Oath of the Gods ⌠The Sky ⌠Prometheus and the Tricking of Zeus ⌠Prometheus and the Stealing of Fire
“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, Michael Levy, and Theodore Koumartzis.
Pages: 60 | Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches | sheet music for lyres or kitharas with 7 or more strings
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Nikolaos Koumartzis, D.Phil. (editor-in-chief)
Fotis Giantsios, M.Litt. (research director)
Lina Palera (composer)
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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. MusĂŠe 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. MusĂŠe 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.
PĂśhlmann, E. (1970). Denkmäler altgriechischer Musik. Sammlung, Ăbertragung und Erläuterung aller Fragmente und Fälschungen
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