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unusual facts about lyre



2002 TV Guide NZ Television Awards

John Cavill, Xena: Warrior Princess "Lyre Lyre Hearts On Fire" (Pacific Renaissance Pictures)

Xena: Warrior Princess "Lyre Lyre Hearts on Fire", Chloe Smith & Robert Tapert (Pacific Renaissance Pictures)

Attilio Gatti

He became one of the Europeans to see the fabled Okapi, and the Bongo, a brown Lyre horned antelope with white stripes.

Banteer

Local sporting organizations include a Gaelic football club known simply as "Lyre" after a nearby village and a hurling club known as Banteer.

Colin Tilney

Tilney has a long discography of harpsichord and fortepiano performances from labels including Dorian, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Oiseau-Lyre, EMI Reflexe, Nonesuch, Vangard, DoReMi and several others.

Count Morzin

Program notes to the series of Haydn symphonies conducted by Christopher Hogwood, issued on Oiseau-Lyre; Volumes 1 and 2.

Hinckley Priory

In March 1399 Hinckley was removed from the control of Lyre Abbey and granted to the Carthusian monks of Mount Grace Priory in North Yorkshire, for the duration of the wars.

Hurrian songs

The Akkadian cuneiform music notation refers to a heptatonic diatonic scale on a nine-stringed lyre, in a tuning system described on three Akkadian tablets, two from the Late Babylonian and one from the Old Babylonian period (approximately the 18th century BC).

Ian Sales

In the 1990s he was joint editor of The Lyre science-fiction magazine, which published work by authors like Eric Brown, Stephen Baxter, Gwyneth Jones and Peter F Hamilton.

Joachim Thibault de Courville

Joachim Thibault de Courville (died 1581) was a French composer, singer, lutenist, and player of the lyre, of the late Renaissance.

John Talbott Donoghue

It is a full-length nude sculpture of the Greek dramatist Sophocles playing a lyre while leading the chorus of victory after the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE.

Lyre River

The Lyre River flows roughly northwest out of Lake Crescent, first encountering June Creek, then turning north at the point that is joined by Boundary Creek on the left.

Music of Crete

The first recorded reference to lyra was in the 9th century by the Persian geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih (d. 911); in his lexicographical discussion of instruments, he cited the lyre (lūrā) as the typical instrument of the Byzantines along with the (organ).

Music of Luxembourg

The 3rd-century Roman mosaic from Vichten presents excellent representations of the muses Euterpe with her flutes and Erato playing the lyre, testifying to an early interest in music.

Platinum coin

Reverse: the image of Igor Stravinsky, background – a scene from the ballet "Petrushka", left – a lyre and a laurel branch, around: "RUSSIA AND WORLD CULTURE", "I. Stravinsky"

Pythagorean tuning

Bragod is a duo giving historically informed performances of mediaeval Welsh music using the crwth and six-stringed lyre using Pythagorean tuning

Rise of the Argonauts

Pytheas - A young lyre-playing merchant from Mycenae.

The Lyre of Mesopotamia

The Lyre of Mesopotamia is a video art made by Sam Chegini about the reconstruction steps of the Lyres of Ur.

The Lyre of Orpheus

Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, an album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, or the song "The Lyre of Orpheus"

Lyra, a constellation associated, in Greek mythology, with the lyre of Orpheus

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

The theatre opened on April 2, 1913, with a gala concert featuring five of France's most renowned composers conducting their own works: Claude Debussy (Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune), Paul Dukas (L'apprenti sorcier), Gabriel Fauré (La naissance de Vénus), Vincent d'Indy (Le camp from Wallenstein), and Camille Saint-Saëns (Phaeton and excerpts from his choral work La lyre et la harpe).

United States Marine Corps rank insignia

Musicians in the "President's Own United States Marine Band" (commonly yet incorrectly referred to simply as The United States Marine Band) wear insignia with the crossed rifles replaced by a lyre to denote their lack of a combat mission; full-service Marines who are attached to the 10 Fleet Marine Force Bands continue to wear their normal rank insignia.


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