Sappho (ca. 650/610 – 580 BC)
Sappho by Teresa Cabanillas.
| Alternative last name spellings: – |
| Alternative first name spellings: Sappho of Lesbos. |
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“To have beauty is to have only that,
but to have goodness
is to be beautiful
too.”
GENERAL INFO
| Description: Sappho, was a Greek poet included among the “nine lyric poets”. Among his poems are examples of popular lyric, as well as some popular songs created as impromptu nuptial songs. These songs are different from the rest of her poems due to an impregnated feeling of greater intimacy, created with a rhythm of her own that was later renamed “Sapphic Stanza”. | |
| Sex: Female | Occupation: Musician, poet. |
| Place of Birth / Death: Mitilene (Lesbos), Greece / Leucade, Greece. | Country Tags: Greece |
| Periods: VII-VI Centuries BC | Genres: Vocal music, Lyric music. |
| Styles: Ancient Greek music. | School / Group: – |
| Instruments: Voice. | Relatives: – |
| Patrons: – | Master: – |
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External links
- Ancient history Encyclopedia: Sappho of Lesbos: https://www.ancient.eu/Sappho_of_Lesbos/ – [08/03/2018]..
- Poems of Sappho. Translated by Julia Dubnoff: http://www.uh.edu/~cldue/texts/sappho.html – [08/03/2018].
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sappho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho – [08/03/2018].
- Wikiquote: Sappho: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sappho – [08/03/2018].
- Sappho at Encyclopædia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sappho-Greek-poet – [08/03/2018].
Bibliography
- Balmer, Josephine (1992) Sappho: Poems and Fragments. Bloodaxe.
- Barnard, Mary (2000) Sappho: A New Translation. University of California Press.
- Beltrando-Patier, Marie-Claire y otros (1996). Historia de la música. Espasa Calpe.
- Burkholder, J. Peter. Jay Grout, Donald. Palisca, Claude V. (2015). Historia de la música occidental. Madrid: Alianza música.
- Duban, Jeffrey M. (1983). Ancient and Modern Images of Sappho: Translations and Studies in Archaic Greek love Lyric. University Press of America.
- Michels, Ulrich. (1992) Atlas de música, Vol 2. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
- Onnen, Frank. (1967). Enciclopedia de la música. Madrid: Afrodisio Aguado.
- Pajares Alonso, Roberto L. (2010). Historia de la Música en 6 bloques. Madrid: Visión libros.
- Voigt, Eva-Maria (1971). Sappho et Alcaeus. Fragmenta. Amsterdam: Polak & van Gennep.
