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EIS KITHARAN: My lyre sings only songs of love
Ioannidis N. is a composer, musicologist, multi-instrumentalist performer, media theorist, and digital media creative producer (with formal qualifications in Music, Musicology, Media Studies, and Digital Media Studies), who is researching ancient Greek music and its relationship with all musical cultures that have been subject to the classical Greek cultural influence.
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English translation
by IOANNIDIS Nikolaos
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This song is included in the CD album: IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS "THE MUSIC OF ANCIENT GREEKS - Early Epic and Lyrical Poetry" Click this title to listen to audio samples of all songs and read the original Greek texts and their English translation. Available is also an introduction to this work by the author Contents of CD Album: Anacreon: My lyre sings only songs
of love Simonides: Danae and Perseus Alcman: Bucolic Simonides: There is a saying about
virtue Tyrtaeus: Spartan march Homer: Iliad - Sing oh goddess
the perilous wrath of Achilles Archilochos: Oh soul Orphic hymn: In praise of Justice Sappho: Ode to Aphrodite Alcaeus: Winter Mimnermos: Short-lived is treasured
youth Homer:
Odyssey - Calypso and
Ulysses Hesiod: Rough is the road to
happiness Bacchylides: Great gifts, peace
brings to mortals Solon: Eunomia All songs in this album are composed, arranged, performed and produced by Ioannidis Nikolaos Research, transcription and translation of ancient Greek texts: Ioannidis Nikolaos Released in 2002 by Homo Ecumenicus Publishing
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LINKS TO OTHER WORKS BY IOANNIDIS A list of all IOANNIDIS' works (musical works, lyrics, essays, translations of classical texts) is available at his WORKS page.
Works of interest to classicists and composers The Music of Ancient Greeks an approach to the original singing of the Homeric epics and the lyrical poetry of the 8th-5th century B.C. MUSIC and RELIGION (extant ancient Greek religious songs, Byzantine chant, Gregorian chant, Quranic chant) Oedipus Rex English opera. Audio excerpt of this work is available online in mp3 format. Also available is the complete Greek text of Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus the king".
Works of interest to poets and lyricists Ancient Greek epic and lyrical poems translated into English by Ioannidis (The original Greek texts are also available on the same page)
Works of interest to music performers Instrumental performance:12-string Guitar Works (12 string classical guitar) Vocal performance: MUSIC and RELIGION (including some tracks with performance of ancient Greek instruments) Visit also the page: ANCIENT GREEK INSTRUMENTS with information about ancient stringed instruments and replicas of some of them
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I, too, wish to sing
of heroic deeds 