lyric poetry poems, poets, and how it relates to beyonce
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Lyric PoetryPoems, Poets, and how it relates to Beyonce
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What is a lyric?
From the Greek word, lyra, meaning lyre, lyric poetry, refers to a short song accompanied by a musical instrument, almost always the lyre
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Yep, you read that right.
Some of the LYRIC POETRY (either spoken or sung) was considered “mood music” for…um, well…you know.
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Types of poetry
The lyric poets can be divided into two groups. There are those best known for MONODY and those best known for CHORAL COMPOSITION.
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Monody
A style of composition dominated by a single melodic line.
A poem recited by one person or created for one voice.
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Epithalamium, [Happy
Bridegroom] by Sappho
Happy bridegroom, Hesper bringsAll desired and timely things.All whom morning sends to roam,Hesper loves to lead them home.
Hesper: the evening star
Home return who him behold,Child to mother, sheep to fold,Bird to nest from wandering wide:Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
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Choral Composition
o Archaic choral lyric poetry was performed by choruses of both sexes at public religious festivals or major family functions
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Lyric Genres
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Hymn
Sung to the accompaniment of a lyre by a chorus standing around the altar. As the ode to Apollo and dithyramb to Dionysus were developed, the hymn became limited to worship of other gods.
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Hyporcheme
The Hyporcheme was both a song and a dance. At least two forms of it are known. In one, a single person played and sang while the others danced. In the other, more usual form, "one or more musicians played, a selected number of the best dancers gave full plastic expression to the theme, while the larger body, which sang, accompanied the music with a sedate orchestic movement…. The dance was performed about the altar during the sacrifice of the victims.”
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Paean
The paean was choral, accompanied by the lyre or flute. The term at first meant a song devoted to the worship of Apollo, then came to be used in other contexts. "It is as a song of thanksgiving and praise...that the paean is best attested in ancient literature. It was pre-eminently a song of joy....Apollo enjoined that the paean should be sung in the springtime at Delphi."
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Enkomion
A praise poem in honor of men, as opposed to the hymn which was for the gods.
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Epinikion
A praise poem sung by a chorus in honor of a victor in an athletic contest.
The common form of accompaniment seems to have been a combination of wind and stringed instruments
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Erotikon
Love poetry--sacred, profane, or both.
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Threnos
Threnoi were funeral laments; examples of from the Homeric age can be found in the Iliad. The chorus wore black, and "a stately dance augmented the somberness of the occasion.”
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Partheneion
Song sung by a chorus of maidens, with the accompaniment of flute music and dance.