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Homer’s Odyssey on the Lyre – Lyre Sheet Music

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“There is no benefit when music stands secret and hidden.” — Lucian

One of Homer’s two great epics is the Odyssey. As the title suggests, it is the story of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, hero of the Trojan War, and his desperate journey to return home to his kingdom and family after the war is over. Unlike the Iliad, the story of Odysseus (or Ulysses, in Latin) deals not with subjects of war but rather with themes of nostos (homesickness, root of the word nostalgia), wandering, strange lands, and great tests. It also tackles the home life left behind by the war heroes and how their absence has affected their homes and loved ones.

This is a curated selection of stories & verses from the great epic so that you can narrate its key moments with your lyre, adding one of the most significant and compelling stories of the ancient world to your repertoire.

Song list: Invocation to the Muse ✩ Demodocus, the Blind Bard ✩ The Lotus Eaters ✩ Polyphemus ✩ Aeolus ✩ Circe ✩ The Underworld ✩ The Sirens ✩ Scylla and Charybdis ✩ Return to Ithaca ✩ The Slaying of the Suitors

“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.

This book is part of the Lyre Sheet Music series, which features some of the greatest lyre players around the world, including Lina Palera, Thanasis Kleopas, Michael Levy, and Theodore Koumartzis.

Pages: 40 | Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches | sheet music for lyres or kitharas with 7 or more strings

_Credits
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. 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). DenkmĂ€ler altgriechischer Musik. Sammlung, Übertragung und ErlĂ€uterung aller Fragmente und FĂ€lschungen

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