This is Mnemosyne [Mneh-MAH-soon-ei], a working reproduction of an ancient Etruscan lyre based on vase paintings and a few surviving remains. She's tuned like a Celtic harp, since we don't have any way to know what the ancient instruments sounded like. It was made by Phil Clark of Rocky Mountain Enterprises.
Here's what she sounds like playing Bread & Roses. (Click here for lyrics) This was one of Bryn Mawr's unofficial songs, a poem first written by James Oppenheim for a famous 1912 protest march condemning unfair labor practices and endorsing the cause of women's suffrage. I'm not sure where the tune came from, but it must go back at least a few generations, since ninety-year-old alums sing it this way. On a less serious note, here's me doodling around. Sappho I'm working on setting poems of Sappho to music. Here's one. The moon has set, and the Pleides, it's midnight, the hours march on: I lie alone. deduke men a selanna kai Pleiades, mesai de nuktes, para d'erchthet' hora, ego de mona kateudo.
Here's what she sounds like playing Bread & Roses. (Click here for lyrics)
This was one of Bryn Mawr's unofficial songs, a poem first written by James Oppenheim for a famous 1912 protest march condemning unfair labor practices and endorsing the cause of women's suffrage. I'm not sure where the tune came from, but it must go back at least a few generations, since ninety-year-old alums sing it this way.
On a less serious note, here's me doodling around.
Sappho I'm working on setting poems of Sappho to music. Here's one. The moon has set, and the Pleides, it's midnight, the hours march on: I lie alone. deduke men a selanna kai Pleiades, mesai de nuktes, para d'erchthet' hora, ego de mona kateudo.
The moon has set, and the Pleides, it's midnight, the hours march on: I lie alone.
deduke men a selanna kai Pleiades, mesai de nuktes, para d'erchthet' hora, ego de mona kateudo.
