Introduction, including Historical Background and Horace the Songwriter; Chronological Table; Complete Verse Translation of 103 Odes and Carmen Saeculare; Epilogue: "Horace and the Do-Re-Mi Mystery"; Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources; Glossary of over 400 Proper Names.
Stuart Lyons was senior Classics scholar at King's College, Cambridge, where he took his MA, and has an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Keele. He has spent his career in industry and was awarded a CBE in 1993.
With brilliant detective work, Stuart Lyons unravels the musical character of Horaces Odes and traces a remarkable link between Horatian music, Guido dArezzo and the discovery of do-re-mi. He adds a complete set of verse translations which, like the original, are elegant, clear and deceptively simple, and put the tune back into Horaces songs.'
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