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Sappho’s Erotic Lyric Poetry – Lyre Sheet Music
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“There is no benefit when music stands secret and hidden.” — Lucian
Few names can be said to truly challenge the connection of the name Sappho with the notion of poetry. The only woman between the nine canonical lyric poets, Sappho’s fame was such, that she was often crowned with the epithet The Poetess. A great honor indeed, since the masculine The Poet was used to refer to Homer himself.
Sappho’s poetry was so renowned and beloved, that Solon, the lawgiver of Athens, is rumored to have said, “Teach me a song of Sappho, so that I may learn it and die.” But although she was a prolific composer, very little of her poetry has reached our time. Her celebration of love and her worship of the goddess Aphrodite have, since antiquity, been a subject of debate, especially in the context of the love between women. Her influence is such that the terms pertaining to that love, sapphic and lesbian, are direct references to her name and her home island of Lesbos, respectively.
This is a curated selection of poems & verses from the great lyric poetess to add to your lyre repertoire.
Song list: Ode to Aphrodite ✦ Peer to Gods ✦ The Midnight Poem ✦ Queen Hera ✦ Cyprus-Born ✦ Nightingale ✦ Descend ✦ Irana ✦ Immortality ✦ The Tithonus Poem ✦ If not, Winter
“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: 48 | 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.
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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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