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Songs of Bilitis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Songs of Bilitis are separated into three cycles, each representative of a phase of Bilitis' life: Bucolics in Pamphylia- childhood and first sexual encounters, Elegies at Mytilene- indulgence in homosexual sensuality, and Epigrams in the Isle of Cyprus- life as a courtesan. The Songs of Bilitis, Les Chansons de Bilitis in French, was a forgery published in 1894 by Pierre Louÿs in Paris. The Songs of Bilitis have been illustrated extensively by numerous erotic artists. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bilitis   (643 words)

g36_otto.txt Bilitis poetically recounts the fiery passion of this relationship in songs such as "Desire," in which she exclaims: "never in my life had there been a kiss like that one" (94). The Songs follow Bilitis through a life of romantic escapades, beginning with her pastoral youth and early passion for a local shepherd and concluding with her later days as an honored temple prostitute on the island of Cyprus. Given the iconography of the Song of Bilitis print and the other references to lesbian classicism that appear throughout Laurencin's images, it is clear that an examination of her ?uvre as that of a peripheral cubist is grossly insufficient. www.genders.org /g36/g36_otto.txt   (6456 words)

The Hindu : Priceless Basant, the timeless way However, Bilitis' songs were actually those to Pierre Louys which made the greatest of scholars think that a 6th B.C. poetess had been discovered. When Bilitis (a variation of Bilqis) arrived, the legendary "Sappho was still beautiful" and Bilitis became acquainted with the admirable woman who "taught her to sing in rhythmic phrases'' of love. As a matter of fact, one of the songs talks of the upper reaches of the Ganges and another of the black hair of Indian women and the painted bodies of the hermits of this country. www.hindu.com /thehindu/mp/2003/02/24/stories/2003022400640200.htm   (1036 words)

Daughters of Bilitis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Bilitis" is the name given to a lesbian contemporary of Sappho, by the French poet Pierre Louÿs in his 1894 work The Songs of Bilitis. The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was formed in San Francisco, California in 1955 by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon along with six other women. The regular DOB publication was called The Ladder, started in 1956 with the help of ONE, Inc. and the Mattachine Society, with whom the DOB retained friendly relations. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daughters_of_Bilitis   (293 words)

Daughters of Bilitis - dKosopedia The name "Bilitis" derives from a book of poetry "Songs of Bilitis" {http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/sob000.htm] by French poet Pierre Louys which purports to be translations of a contemporary of Sappho's and explores same sex eroticism between women. Daughters of Bilitis (D.O.B.) founded in San Francisco, California in 1955. Over the course of the 1970s chapters began to dwindle as members drifted toward either the feminist or the gay rights movement. www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Daughters_of_Bilitis   (238 words)

TCU School of Music The central two songs of the group are intimate expressions of the loving relationship of a long-married couple. Set to texts by Vaughan Williams’ wife Ursula, these songs were published posthumously and were actually meant as fragments of two projected cycles. Although outdated, the textual tone, similar to that of Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs, would indicate that they were written fairly late in his life, and there is no indication that they were ever performed. www.music.tcu.edu /faculty_notes_s_allen_oct_27.asp   (857 words)

Tabula Rasa Press -- Miniature Books A sampling of the original "Songs" is presented, but care was taken to preserve the original story line. The illustrations are original with the edition and are photographs of underaped and semi-draped models originally taken in black & white and then hand-colored by Gesinger to produce soft, lovely images in keeping with the tone of the text. Of greater significance, he discovered and navigated the Columbia River. www.tabularasapress.com /miniature_books3.html   (188 words)

Laurencin Song of Bilitis (1904--the title refers to a book of poems published in 1895 by Pierre Louÿs, Songs of Bilitis, that purported to be translations from the ancient Greek and celebrated lesbian love) www.modjourn.brown.edu /mjp/Image/Laurencin/Laurencin.htm   (217 words)

glbtq >> social sciences >> Daughters of Bilitis Their group's name came from "Songs of Bilitis," a lesbian-themed song cycle by French poet Pierre Louÿs, which described Bilitis as a resident of the Isle of Lesbos alongside Sappho. The inability of the Daughters of Bilitis to survive the tumultuous 1960s does not diminish its importance in glbtq history. Founded in 1955 in San Francisco, the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was the first national lesbian political and social organization in the United States. www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/daughters_bilitis.html   (1179 words)

Bit too much Turkish delight - theage.com.au The Three Songs of Bilitis are deceptively simple sensual reveries on neo-classical motifs that require from the interpreter a sense of the transitory and the poetic from the interpreter. Poulenc's Fiancailles Pour Rire is a set of six songs written by the composer for a friend caught up in the outbreak of the Second World War. Kenny is a singer at the height of her interpretative powers with a beautiful creamy character to her voice - and French song, unlike the classical repertoire in which she has distinguished herself, requires a kind of elegant breathing surrender to the vocal line, an intelligent reverie where opera demands pyrotechnic rhetoric. www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/08/04/1028157878202.html   (502 words)

The Songs of Bilitis The Songs of Bilitis, an affirmation of lesbian love, describes the life of a young woman in a series of lyrical prose poems. We meet Bilitis just as she reaches puberty, and the subject here is her infatuation with a young shepherd and her life of worship at the altar of the nymphs. The second section describes the sophisticated city of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, where Bilitis lived passionately with another woman for ten years. www.bk-girls.org /books/songsofbilitis.html   (109 words)

Gerber/Hart Library - News and Events - Winds of Change Even the name of their new group provided protection from exposure: they chose the title of an obscure 19th-century erotic poem, "Songs of Bilitis," supposedly written by one of Sappho's lovers and "translated" by Pierre Louys. Their sensitivity to the intense fear of the time—a fear that is hard for us to even imagine today—meant that one did not have to declare herself to be a lesbian to join the Daughters of Bilitis. Organizations like Daughters of Bilitis want to see the homosexual move out of his cubbyhole and join the rest of society as a responsible person. www.gerberhart.org /dob.html   (1295 words)

Pierre Louys 1928 Songs of Bilitis Illus. Franz Felix The Songs of Bilitis Illustrated by Franz Felix. This is the beautiful 1928 printing of a book by Pierre Louys, limited to 1250 copies, printed on Unicorn laid paper. www.trocadero.com /decodays/items/342079/item342079cyberattic.html   (151 words)

Willy Pogany Books, The Songs of Bilitis The Songs of Bilitis By Willy Pogany and published by Macy-Masius, New York. If you have any questions or require further information on this item, please email me. I will also be happy to discuss any books/illustrations that you currently have and wish to sell. www.booksillustrated.com /B335.htm   (73 words)

October 2001 Script One of the very earliest homophile movement groups to be organized was the Daughters of Bilitis, in 1955 in San Francisco. But she also recorded a very gay song that year for the movie "Norman, Is That You." The movie starred Redd Foxx and Pearl Bailey and the premise was their finding out that their son was gay and dating a white man. Here is the movie's title song, called "One Out of Every Six." That was written in July of 1977 and she wrote this song for her lover, Tryna. www.queermusicheritage.com /oct2001s.html   (2323 words)

Lesbian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Since the 1890s, the underground classic The Songs of Bilitis had been influential on lesbian culture, and this book provided a name for the first campaigning and cultural organisation in the United States, the Daughters of Bilitis. During the 1950s and 1960s, there was a rise in lesbian pulp fiction in the US and UK, many of which carried "coded" titles such as Odd Girl Out, The Evil Friendship by Vin Packer and the Beebo Brinker-series by Ann Bannon. During the twentieth century, lesbians such as Gertrude Stein and Barbara Hammer were noted in the US avant-garde art movements, along with figures such as Leontine Sagan in German pre-war cinema. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lesbian   (2889 words)

Sappho, The Tenth Muse Pierre Loüys book, The Songs of Bilitis is a tongue in cheek but loving tribute to her. Robert Graves compares her to the goddess Cerridwen in his book on The White Goddess and the poet H.D. has written many of her poems dedicated to fragments and scattered lines of Sappho's work. Plato called her the tenth muse and she has often been imitated. www.wildmuse.net /faerie/muses/sappho.html   (237 words)

The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, Mélodies, Chansons and other Vocal Music The languor of their eyes, the fire in their cheeks, the seriousness of their faces, were three ardent songs. That means: "Dear Bilitis, tell us again because we are nice, the story of the hero Perseus or the death of little Hellé. We must sing a pastoral song, invoke Pan, god of the summer wind. www.recmusic.org /lieder/assemble_texts.html?LanguageId=7&SongCycleId=948   (1784 words)

Neglected Music: Rawlins ** Along with “Silent Noon”, Songs of Travel is Ralph Vaughan Williams' earliest enduring music, based upon late R.L.Stevenson poetry — though both artists' creations occurred in their thirties. (RVW lived nearly twice as long as RLS.) Song #15 of the RLS set is “Bright Is the Ring of Words” an appropriately touching, slightly vain, and un-slightly sentimental consideration of the survival and ever-renewed vitality of emotions in music and poetry — long beyond the passing of the creator. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel**, Sea Symphony, London Symphony, Two Piano Concerto, Dona Nobis Pacem, Pilgrim's Progress (esp. 1943 version), Symphony #5, Antarctic Symphony, Oboe Concerto, Oxford Elegy, Symphony #9. www.dioi.org /mus.htm   (1835 words)

Titles Alphabetically Lancelot at the Cross, Gawain and Hermit (S.F.M.d'A.), and Songs of Bilitis. Contains Some Songs of Bilitis, Lancelot and Elaine - see Ballad of Elaine and others not published. Includes Songs of Bilitis and Song of Balochistan. www.sfw.org /L-Z.html   (607 words)

Language Log: Temples of memory I find it strange that John B. Hare, the man behind the Internet Sacred Text Archive, thinks that Daughters of Bilitis is a sacred text at all, or that The Vampire Codex should be given essentially parallel billing with the King James Bible and the Rg Veda on his site. However, it's Hare's right to follow his own inspiration as he pleases, especially because his site is funded only by himself and the contributions of those who find it useful. itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000183.html   (928 words)

Cantaloupe Music: Phil Kline - Zippo Songs 2003 has seen the premieres of The Blue Room (String Quartet No. 2), Pictures of an Exhibitionist for pianist Kathy Supove, and two music theater works: Bilitis and Zippo Songs. Coupled with Rumsfeld Songs, Zippo Songs is Kline's statement on war and the politics of war, in a fresh and new take on the age old tradition of the protest song. Zippo Songs then began to take shape as a sequence of varied moods and activities, getting bummed, getting high, getting horny, getting bored, dying, finding god. www.cantaloupemusic.com /CA21019.html   (1378 words)

Amazon.com: Bilitis: Books Based on The songs of Bilitis, a beautiful poetry book by Pierre Löuys (about a greek girl who falls in love with another girl) and French Impressionism (Renoir, Degas, etc) David Hamilton tried to translate his photo work to a movie. I like Bilitis' story very much, but the one by Löuys, and I like Hamilton's later work too, but when it's presented on a real photo book and without his obsessive fog filter. But a bad screen-play that left no trace of the original, a very pretentious musical score plus Hamiltons' total ignorance on movie direction led the project to terrible results. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688015220?v=glance   (466 words)

The New Yorker: Fact The songs, by turns rapt, erotic, and fierce, could be heard as a portrait of an intensely complementary marriage, the delicately spiky piano writing urging the singer into one voluptuous passage after another. After the intermission, she sang “Rilke Songs,” settings of five of the poet’s “Sonnets to Orpheus,” which were composed for her by her husband. She sang several Spanish love songs, and when she had finished I went up to her and said, “You have one of the most beautiful voices I’ve ever heard. www.newyorker.com /fact/content?040105fa_fact   (4724 words)

Daze Reader: Pierre Louys, Songs of Bilitis ShanMonster steers us to another cool eBay auction from the same erotic antiquarians: a 1928 limited edition of The Songs of Bilitis, "Rendered From The Greek and Englished From The French of Pierre Louys" according to the title page. This is the "translation" of a sixth century BC book of songs by a Greek/Phoenician woman, retelling an incredible story of a young woman who loses her lover, abandons a child, travels to Greece, falls under the spell of Lesbos, and eventually winds up at a temple of Venus, doing the Goddesses' work! The Lied and Art Song Texts Page has twelve songs in both the original French and English translations by Marvin Ward. www.dazereader.com /001617.htm   (419 words)

Couple at Vanguard of Lesbian Rights / Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon to be honored as grand marshals at Gay Pride parade The name Daughters of Bilitis (pronounced Bill-ee-tuss) came from an erotic lesbian poem, ``The Songs of Bilitis,'' written in the 1920s by Pierre Louys. San Francisco -- In 1955, Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon and six other women from San Francisco founded the Daughters of Bilitis, the first national lesbian organization. It was 14 years before the infamous Stonewall Riot in 1969 when patrons of a gay bar in New York rebelled against a police raid. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/23/MN4706.DTL   (993 words)

Humanoid's Publishing - Catalog Published in 1896, the French erotic masterpiece Aphrodite made Pierre Louÿs famous and was by far his greatest success, surpassing that of his other well-known works such as The Songs of Bilitis. Conceived as a novel of the antiquity focusing on women and on light, Aphrodite seems to lend itself naturally to illustration. www.humanoids-publishing.com /products/prod.php?id=104   (141 words)

S.FW - The Song Of Song And Other Poems The second section of the book, the 'Songs of Bilitis', owe obvious acknowledgement to Pierre Louys; and the 'Songs of Balochistan' to originals collected orally, and transcribed by Longworth Dames in the later part of the nineteenth century. THE first poem in this book, "The Song of Songs," originally appeared in Poetry (February, 1925), and the first edition of the present volume was issued in the autumn of the same year. S.FW - The Song Of Song And Other Poems www.sfw.org /books/song.html   (3717 words)

Salt Bay Chamberfest ends season on high note The "Songs of Bilitis" were Debussy's first public success, around the turn of the century. Like the first of the songs, they invoke Pan, god of the summer breeze, with considerable success, even in Damariscotta, Maine. The program opened with a delightful arrangement of Debussy's "Bilitis" for flute and harp, played by Joshua Smith, flute, and Stacey Shames, harp. entertainment.mainetoday.com /news/040905hydereview.shtml   (350 words)

The Songs of Bilitis One type of song would get more popular the more times it had been heard and then would plummet in popularity when a person had heard it around fifteen times. 'First published in Paris in 1894, this purports to be translations of poems by a woman named Bilitis, a contemporary and acquaintance of Sappho. What's crazy, though, is that if you really don't want to bend any laws, there is a wealth of free music online -- and The Red Ferret Journal just set up a Wiki (a user-edited web page) to make it even easier. www.stargeek.com /item/32648.html   (3660 words)

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