'Translucent Times': lyrics, song and voice by Marianne Lihannah and keyboards, played and composed by Paul Landry. 
It is a personal reflection of life after having had a very challenging year in 2019 and then experiencing the corona virus nightmare in 2020.

Translucent Times

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'Tender Wishes' is a song by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, here sung in English, translated from the original French song 'Les Tendres Souhaits' aka 'Que ne suis-je la fougère', (See the complete French lyrics by Ribouette below).
The melody is by Pergolesi and the harmony, singing and nyckelharpa playing is by Marianne Lihannah.

Pergolesi, was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist and organist. Born Jan. 4, 1710, Jesi, Italy—died March 16, 1736, Pozzuoli at just 26 years old by Tuberculosis.

The lyricist is Ribouette and in this recording, 2 verses of the original 3 verses are sung. Verse no 2 is here played with two nyckelharpas. The harmony part is improvised under the Pergolesi melody.

A special thanks to the wonderful nyckelharpa player Didier Francois, who has helped me with playing this song on the nyckelharpa as well as teaching me improvisation on the nyckelharpa.

This song is also a grade song on ABRSM's classical repertoire list.

Here is the original French text with all 3 verses included:

verse 1:
Que ne suis-je la fougère,
Où, sur la fin d'un beau jour,
Se repose ma bergère
Sous la garde de l'amour!
Que ne suis-je le Zéphyre
Qui rafraîchit ses appas,
L'air que sa bouche respire
La fleur qui naît sous ses pas.

Verse 2:
Que ne suis-je l'onde pure
Qui la reçoit dans son sein!
Que ne suis-je la parure
Qui la couvre après le bain!
Que ne suis-je cette glace,
Où son minois répété
Offre à nos yeux une grâce
Qui sourit à la beauté!

Verse 3:
Que ne puis-je par un songe,
Tenir son cœur enchanté!
Que ne puis-je du mensonge
Passer à la vérité!
Les dieux qui m'ont donné l'être
M'ont fait trop ambitieux,
Car enfin je voudrais être
Tout ce qui plaît à ces yeux.

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Tender wishes

Tender Wishes | Marianne Lihannah | Voice & Nyckelharpa | Pergolesi

Smoke Maschine from Elyssia's forthcoming third album - Paradise Lost
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'Breeze of Love' is a love song, a lyrical weaving of beautiful memories, mixed with reminders to myself to choose to love and understand, whenever it is possible. To not let the few bad moments in a day overshadow all the many wonderful experiences. 
This song is one of my unreleased old favourite songs which I completely re-worked in 2021, originally written for voice and lyre. Now magically transformed with Paul Landry's beautiful additions.
 
Song and lyrics, piano and voice by Marianne Lihannah
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Breeze of Love

Breeze Of Love |  Marianne Lihannah

I Mine Kåte Ungdomsdagar (In my reckless youthful days).
A traditional Norwegian folk song, here sung and played by Marianne Lihannah accompanied by nyckelharpa.
This song has been made famous by the 2 groups, Tiriltunga and Trio Medieval.
The story in this song is 'modern' for it's time where it was written and quite unusual compared to many folk songs.
The young woman, who is narrating about her life, has come to the conclusion that it is better NOT to marry, but instead just lie in your lover's arms, now and then.

I Mine Kåte Ungdomsdagar

I Mine Kåte Ungdomsdagar | Marianne Lihannah | Voice & Nyckelharpa

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Tomorrow is Promised to no one (pt.1)

'The Darkest Midnight in December' is an Irish traditional folk carol for Christmas night, after Fr William Devereux, 1728. It is from Fr Devereux's collection of Kilmore Christmas carols, called 'A New Garland'. These Christmas Carols are much more like folk songs.
I used to consider this beautiful Carol, as MY Christmas Carol. I have sung it as a solo during several Christmas concerts when I sang with the choir, 'Tonalis Company of Singers' and the choir 'Choros'. I have also sung it in folk clubs etc.
There are actually quite a few verses, but here I only sing verse 1, first solo acapella and then as a duet with myself with a movable drone and third time as a canon with drones.
This Christmas carol can be found in many Carol books with all the many ornaments actually written into the sheet music, true to the sean noes style from the West of Ireland.

The Kilmore Carols are found only in Wexford, and date back more than 300 years. In 1684 Luke Waddinge, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ferns, published A Smale Garland of Pious and Godly Songs. The cover inscription continues: "Composed by a devout Man/ For the Solace of his Friends and/ neighbours in their afflictions." The book contained 11 Christmas songs, two of which are still sung in Kilmore today. The texts were new, while the melodies were drawn from various traditional sources.
Waddinge died shortly after his book appeared, but interest in the subject was revived by a Father William Devereux, parish priest of Drinagh, Wexford from 1730-1771 (the current Devereuxes in Kilmore are almost certainly related to this priest). Devereux published A New Garland Containing Songs for Christmas. This included some of his own carols along with a few from Waddinge's collection.

Father R. Ranson, who published an edition of the Devereux book in 1949, claims that "the carols were first sung in a little chapel at Killiane, and tradition seems to indicate that the choir consisted of six men." The chapel in question was "no more than a mud hut".

The carols proved very popular, and manuscript copies quickly spread to neighbouring parishes, including Kilmore. Diarmaid O Muirithe, who has assembled and edited a collection of all the Wexford Carols (The Wexford Carols, Dolmen Press, 1982) observes: "They were sung in most of the churches of south Wexford in the 18th century, and even well into the 19th century. I think it's a great pity that they're now no longer sung outside Kilmore." O Muirithe considers that the church hierarchy in Wexford is to some extent responsible for the carols' decline. "For centuries they had been regarded by the church with a kind of benign tolerance, no more than that."

One priest in Kilmore Quay in the 19th century decided to get rid of the carols altogether and replace them with Victorian hymnody. "But the people in Kilmore decided they wouldn't be banished. The priest was banished instead, because nobody came into the church the next year. The bishop had to transfer him."

The Darkest Midnight in December

The Darkest Midnight in December | Irish Traditional Folk Carol | Marianne Lihannah

As the name of the piece suggests, it was composed and written by an individual named Seikilos. 
The arrangement to Seikilos' melody played with a Nyckelharpa, lyre and Choroi flute is composed, sung and played by Marianne Lihannah
The lyrics were originally in Greek, I have made a more poetic translation, rather than exact, both in English and in Danish, of the original lyrics, which reads:
hóson zêis, phaínou
mēdèn hólōs sỳ lypoû
pròs olígon ésti tò zên
tò télos ho khrónos apaiteî.

While you live, shine
have no grief at all
life exists only for a short while
and Time demands his due.

Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world. The epitaph has been variously dated, but seems to be either from the 1st or the 2nd century CE. The song, the melody of which is recorded, alongside its lyrics, in the ancient Greek musical notation, was found engraved on a tombstone (a stele) from the Hellenistic town of Tralles near present-day Aydın, Turkey, not far from Ephesus. A town that was part of Ancient Greece but is now part of Turkey.
While older music with notation exists (for example the Hurrian songs), all of it is in fragments; the Seikilos epitaph is unique in that it is a complete, though short, composition.
This gives us a glimpse as to what the music of Ancient Greece was truly like and the piece is still being performed today. As the name suggests, the piece itself is an epitaph, probably written to honor the composer's deceased wife or the muse of music. 


The Stele is now kept in a museum in Denmark, where I come from, so I thought it fun to translate the beautiful words into a poetic Danish translation as well. Each verse is sung in a slightly different way. As there is a debate as to where the emphasis is in the meter, each verse has a different emphasis because of the different translations in 2 languages.
A possible alternative way of rhythmizing the Seikilos song, in order to preserve the iambic ('rising', di-dum) feel of the rhythm, was suggested by Armand D'Angour, with the barlines displaced one quaver to the right. When I sing the song a second time in Danish, I am using this alternative way.
The verse in English, which I sing first, I sing using the more well-known way of putting the emphasis.
It is a Hellenistic Ionic song in either the Phrygian octave species or Iastian tonos.

In addition to the lyrics, another piece of the puzzle is the inscription engraved on the stele that reads, “I am a tombstone, an image. Seikilos placed me here as an everlasting sign of deathless remembrance

 it, which reads in Greek:
eikṑn ḗ líthos eimí. títhēsí me Seikílos éntha mnḗmēs athanátou sêma polykhrónion.
A free translation of this reads: "I am a tombstone, an image. Seikilos placed me here as a long-lasting sign of deathless remembrance."

Dedication
The last two surviving words on the tombstone itself are (with the bracketed characters denoting a partial possible reconstruction of the lacuna or of a possible name abbreviation)
Σεικίλος Εὐτέρ[πῃ]
Seikílos Eutér[pēi]

meaning "Seikilos to Euterpe"; hence, according to this reconstruction, the tombstone and the epigrams thereon were possibly dedicated by Seikilos to Euterpe, who was possibly his wife. (Euterpe is also the name of the Muse of music). Another possible partial reconstruction could be
Σεικίλος Εὐτέρ[που]
Seikílos Eutér[pou]

meaning "Seikilos of Euterpes", i.e. "Seikilos, son of Euterpes"

Seikilos Epitaph

Seikilos Epitaph | Song of Seikilos | Oldest complete song | arrang. by Marianne Lihannah

Gjendines bådnlåt is a traditional Norwegian folk lullaby which can be traced back to Kaia Gjendine Slålien (1870-1971), a milkmaid from the Jotunheimen area. Well known for her repertoire of songs, she met Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) on several occasions. Many of her ballads and lullabies formed the basis for his 1896 collection of “19 Norwegian Folk Songs – Op.66” which he arranged for the piano. Gjendines bådnlåt is the last piece in the collection. My version of the lullaby is mixing up various versions of the lullaby, as well as including a nyckelharpa solo and my arrangement for nyckelharpa.

Lyrics:

Bånet legges i vuggen ned
stundom gråter, stundom ler (x2)
sove nå sove nå, I Jesu namn
Jesus bevare bånet (x2)

Min mor ho tok meg på sitt fang
dansa med meg fram og tilbake
Min mor ho tok meg på sitt fang
dansa med meg att och fram
Danse så med de små, danse så
så skal borna danse (x2)

Translation:
The child is placed in the crib
Sometimes crying, sometimes smiling
Sleep now, sleep now, in the name of Jesus
Jesus keep the child safe

My mother takes me in her arms
danced with me back and forth
Dance with the little ones, dance
So shall they dance

Gjendine's Lullaby

Gjendine's Lullaby | Norwegian Folk Trad. | Marianne Lihannah

'Eunoia' (meaning: beautiful thinking) is sung, arranged and played on nyckelharpa by Marianne Lihannah.
The melody is an old German folk tune. (Ich stund an einem Morgen)
The lyrics by Marianne Lihannah and Anon.

I fell in love with this song with Swedish lyrics  (Hemlig stod jag en morgon) and learned that initially. After getting inside the Swedish text I realized I couldn't make myself record that kind of story.
I began to research the song and discovered that it originally had German words (Ich stund an einem Morgen), with a completely different story from the Swedish version. 

Because I loved the old folk tune so much, I decided to re-write the lyrics completely and arrange it for nyckelharpa.

Eunoia

Eunoia |  Marianne Lihannah

The Wrong Turn pt.1  Classical guitar with cello
Paul Landry - Yanaha electro classical guitar and VSTi cello
Composed and performed by Paul Landry

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The Wrong Turn pt.1

In Starlight from 'A Sound For Sore Souls' by music duo Elyssia, Singer Marianne Lihannah from Denmark and UK based musician Paul Landry. 
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In Starlight

In Starlight | Elyssia |

Progressive rock music from Elyssia: Dance to Your Tune features an atmospheric sound montage leading up to distant ambient piano and guitar synthesizer then leading into a soft pulsating rhythm with mezzo soprano vocals and other nice things
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Dance to your tune

Dance To Your Tune | Elyssia | Progressive Rock Music | New Age Music

Summer Breezes from Elyssia's concept album Arcadia. 
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Arcadia

Summer Breezes

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Summer Breezes | Elyssia | Progressive Rock | from Arcadia

Harmony is a track from Elyssia's concept album, 'Arcadia'.
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Harmony

Harmony | Elyssia | Progressive Rock | Arcadia

Trip hop ambient music from Elyssia's album Arcadia.
Dryad Dawn or Dance of the Dryads, parts 1 and 2
In Part 1: Entering the Dryad world and seduction.
The dryads appear in the wood from behind trees and stones and try to seduce an Arcadian traveller into the beauty and sensualness of nature. Their arms are like vines around a tree, just in this case, their arms sweep round the traveller's body.
In Part 2: The dryads and the Arcadian traveller are all dancing together in upbeat dance.
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Dance of the Dryads, part 1 and 2

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Dryad Dawn | Elyssia | Trip Hop | Electronica | Arcadia

A new remix of Celadon by Elyssia. Celadon is the mythical river that flows through the utopia of Arcadia, the title of our newest album from Elyssia. Featuring river sounds, dreamy synths and atmospheric guitar chords
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Celadon

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'Arcadia' is the title track from our second album.
Arcadia is the ancient Greek utopia whereby humanity lives in symbiosis with nature.

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Arcadia (Theme)| Elyssia | Progressive Rock | New Age Music

Requiem for the Living from A Sound for Sore Souls by Elyssia
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Keyboards, synthesizers and Yamaha electro classical guitar - Paul Landry
Words and music - Paul Landry
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Requiem for the Living

Requiem For The Living | Elyssia |

A fusion of Classical music with mezzo soprano and new age music. Marianne Lihannah sings the very famous 'Ave Maria' melody written by Gonoud. Instead of the well-known Bach prelude as accompaniment, she sings with keyboards and vsti synthesizers by Paul Landry.

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Marianne Lihannah is a professional singer from Denmark now based in the UK who has specialized in singing classical pieces and folk music. However her repertoire also spans newage and progressive rock.

Paul Landry is an instrumentalist from the UK creating mostly new age and ambient compositions though some new material features lyrics.

Ave Maria

Ave Maria | Elyssia | New Age Music | Gounod | Bach | Mezzo Soprano

Down by the River, from Elyssia's concept album 'Arcadia'.
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Down by the River

Down By The River | Arcadia|

Opening track from the concept album Arcadia by Elyssia

Paul Landry: Roland Fender Stratocaster with Roland GR-55 Guitar Synthesizer
Composed by Paul Landry.

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Symbiosis

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Symbiosis | Arcadia |

Paradise Lost, the Title track from Elyssia's forthcoming third album - Paradise Lost
Marianne Lihannah - Vocals
Paul Landry, Electro classical guitar, synths, bass guitar and electric guitar with Roland GR-55 guitar synthesizer

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In this fusion Gregorian Chant meets New Age Music. Perotin's Beata Viscera in a beautiful new version.
Multi tracked mezzo soprano vocal layers sung by Marianne Lihannah against a vocal drone. This drone is accompanied by Pal Landry playing an ambient synth drone, a mellotron vsti and a native flute vsti synth to fuse classical with new age and ambient styles.

The mezzo soprano Marianne Lihannah sings this divine processional Marian hymn which couldn't have been composed before year 1220. It is by 'Perotin' also known as 'Perotin Magister' or 'Perotin the Great' or 'Magister Perotinus' The words are by Phillip de Chancellor a French Theologian and Latin Medieval Lyric Poet.

It starts with the chorus:
'O Wondrous Novelty and unprecedented joy of a mother still intact after giving birth' The mysteries of the Mosaic Law are resolved.

The tree sprung from the mystic rod, unknown in nature. Water gushing from the stone, a pilar showing the way to God's people are favourable signs. 'O Wondrous Novelty......

The eye cannot bear to look freely on the sun, as it rises in the air in all it's purity. Then let it behold that sun from the side, as it is reflected, in the womb of a pregnant woman, where it is enclosed entire. 'O Wondrous Novelty...... *************************************************************
There is actually also a 1st and a 4th verse, which I haven't recorded, because I thought it would make the song too long.

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Beata Viscera

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New remix with added piano and mellotron and new vocal mix of Permanent lullaby, which will feature on our new album, 'The Best of Elyssia', coming in May. The old version is from a 'A Sound for Sore Souls', our debut album. 'Permanent Lullaby' is an atmospheric piano piece featuring a sampled Icelandic female chorus with haunting ambient piano and mellotron and synth textures. Beautiful Mezzo Soprano singing by Marianne Lihannah. #SCFIRST
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The Best of Elyssia

Permanent Lullaby

This song is a musical inspiration from a beautiful painting by Patrick Gamble, called 'Light of the Pleiades'. Remixed and remastered in 2020 and a slgtly shorter edit. #SCFIRST
Goddess of The Stars is from the CD, 'A Sound for Sore Souls' by the duo Elyssia.  UK based musician and composer Paul Landry and singer Marianne Lihannah from Denmark
Keyboards, synthesizers and electric guitar by Paul Landry
Mezzo soprano - Marianne Lihannah
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Goddess of the Stars

A re- mastered and shortened version of Dance to Your Tune .Progressive rock music from Elyssia:  an atmospheric sound montage leading up to distant ambient piano and guitar synthesizer then leading into a soft pulsating rhythm with mezzo soprano vocals and other nice things
Taken from the album, A Sound For Sore Souls, #SCFIRST
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Marianne Lihannah: Vocals
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Dance to your Tune

Dance To Your Tune (edit)

Plastic Fish from Elyssia's forthcoming third album - Paradise Lost
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Words and Music by Paul Landry
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Plastic Fish

Traditional Irish folk song. #SCFIRST 
My Lagan Love
Marianne Lihannah sings verse 1 and 4 of the beautiful and mysterious, 'My Lagan Love', over Nyckelharpa drones, with a little nyckelharpa solo in the middle.
You can also watch it on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb0EpR2rFto
MY LAGAN LOVE
words Joseph Campbell (a.k.a Seosamh MacCathmhaoil, 1879-1944)
tune traditional Irish (the Belfast maid)

The words of the 2 verses I have missed out are:

Verse 2:
Her father sails a running-barge
'Twixt Leamh-beag and The Druim;
And on the lonely river-marge
She elears his hearth for him.
When she was only fairy-high
Her gentle mother died;
But *dew-Love keeps her memory
Green on the Lagan side.

Verse 3:
And oft-times, when the beetle's horn
Hath lulled the eve to sleep,
I steal unto her shieling lorn, ("shieling" - a shepherd's summer hut, like a barn or a cottage)
And thro' the dooring peep.
There on the crickets' singing-stone
She spares the bogwood fire,
And hums in sad, sweet under-tone
The song of hearts-desire.

*Dubh (pronounced doov or dew) = dark. One usually meets the sidhe at the crossroads, or at the crossing from day to night.

The Lagan river in this song, is the Lagan near Belfast. Campbell was born in Castlereagh Road, east Belfast, just a couple of miles from the Lagan.
In his youth he suffered from some "nervous" problems and often went for long rambles along the Lagan's banks.

To quote from Mary O'Hara's notes on this song, from her book "A Song For Ireland", - "The leánan sídhe (fairy mistress) mentioned in the song is a malicious figure who frequently crops up in Gaelic love stories. One could call her the femme fatale of Gaelic folklore. She sought the love of men; if they refused, she became their slave, but if they consented, they became her slaves and could only escape by finding another to take their place. She fed off them so her lovers gradually wasted away - a common enough theme in Gaelic medieval poetry, which often saw love as a kind of sickness. Most Gaelic poets in the past had their leanán sídhe to give them inspiration. This malignant fairy was for them a sort of Gaelic muse. On the other hand, the crickets mentioned in the song are a sign of good luck and their sound on the hearth a good omen. It was the custom of newly-married couples about to set up home to bring crickets from the hearths of their parents' house and place them in the new hearth."

From Wikipedia:
"My Lagan Love" is a song to a traditional Irish air collected in 1903 in northern Donegal.
The English lyrics have been credited to Joseph Campbell (1879–1944, also known as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil and Joseph McCahill, among others). Campbell was a Belfast man whose grandparents came from the Irish-speaking area of Flurrybridge, South Armagh. He started collecting songs in County Antrim. In 1904 he began a collaboration with composer Herbert Hughes. Together, they collected traditional airs from the remote parts of County Donegal.

While on holidays in Donegal, Hughes had learned the air from Proinseas mac Suibhne, who had learned it from his father Seaghan mac Suibhne, who in turn had learned it fifty years previously from a man working with the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Campbell said that mac Suibhne knew the tune under the title of "The Belfast Maid", but did not know the words. A song by this title was published in various early 19th century broadsides, with the first lines "In Belfast town of high renown / There lives a comely maid".This ballad now has Roud number 2930.

The Lagan referred to in the title most likely is the River Lagan in Belfast. Campbell's words mention Lambeg, which is just outside the city. The Lagan is the river that runs through Belfast. However, some argue that the Lagan in the song refers to a stream that empties into Lough Swilly in County Donegal, not far from where Herbert Hughes collected the song.

My Lagan Love

My Lagan Love | Marianne Lihannah

'Untwine the Strands' was originally meant be called 'Be Here'; a message to myself, NOT to miss the beauty of the present moments for whatever reasons.
This song is one of my unreleased very old songs which I completely re-wrote and gave new words in 2020. 

Song and lyrics, piano and voice by Marianne Lihannah
Synthesizer and guitar added parts by Paul Landry

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