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Alcaic Adventurer: Ninety-nine Poems and Five Songs
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ISBN13: 9798354389391
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 3 2022
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 3 2022
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
As a songwriter, I think about music every day . . . As a poet, I value melody and rhythm and harmony.
My adventure in this 2-month verse journal is to unearth an ancient treasure unknown to most poetry lovers, the Greco-Roman alcaic stanza form. There had been earlier rediscoveries of this appealing melodic achievement-in Britain, Germany, and Russia-but I don't know of any other poet writing alcaics today. Here you will find 99 new original poems in the old-time rhythm, plus 5 alcaic art songs I've composed, with the sheet music included. You can do all sorts of things in this adaptable stanza: create a memoir episode, a childhood awakening, a tribute to a mentor-friend, a nature sketch, a painting or musical work, a satire, a therapeutic sermonette, a hymn, a psalm. And I'm guessing you'll want to sing the alcaic revival music, too.
My adventure in this 2-month verse journal is to unearth an ancient treasure unknown to most poetry lovers, the Greco-Roman alcaic stanza form. There had been earlier rediscoveries of this appealing melodic achievement-in Britain, Germany, and Russia-but I don't know of any other poet writing alcaics today. Here you will find 99 new original poems in the old-time rhythm, plus 5 alcaic art songs I've composed, with the sheet music included. You can do all sorts of things in this adaptable stanza: create a memoir episode, a childhood awakening, a tribute to a mentor-friend, a nature sketch, a painting or musical work, a satire, a therapeutic sermonette, a hymn, a psalm. And I'm guessing you'll want to sing the alcaic revival music, too.
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