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Jason & the Argonauts for the Lyre – Lyre Sheet Music
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“There is no benefit when music stands secret and hidden.” — Lucian
Apollonious Rhodius’ Argonautica has a curious relationship with the two Homeric epics, the Odyssey and the Iliad. For although it was written about 500 years after them, around the 3rd century BCE, it takes place one generation before the heroes of the Trojan War, as many of their fathers were members of the fabled Argonautic expedition.
As the only surviving hellenistic epic, the Argonautica was an ambitious attempt to both imitate Homer, as well as include those breakthroughs in geography, ethnography, history, and literature that had been made during the time of the Library of Alexandria. Although it tackles a well-known myth, it introduces new elements, from the internal monologue to the romance, unknown to the epic genre until then. Accordingly, Apollonius’ epic is quite shorter than the works of Homer, consisting of only four books. This brevity is thought to have been a result of the influence of Aristotle, as well as Callimachus, an extremely influential Alexandrine scholar and literary critic.
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 Apollo ✦ The Gathering of the Heroes ✦ The Women of Lemnos ✦ King Amycus ✦ The Clashing Rocks (The Symplegades) ✦ Medea and the Trials of Jason ✦ The Golden Fleece ✦ The Sirens ✦ Hesperides
“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
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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. 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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