The Triumph of Cleopatra🎵🐍 Singing Horace's Cleopatra ode

Описание: This is a song version of Horace's Cleopatra Ode, 1.37! The title 'Triumph of Cleopatra' is a deliberate ambiguity to play on how the narrator seems to be praising Cleopatra's unbeatable fortitude in the face of defeat and her refusal to be led along in a triumph, as well as celebrating Rome's metaphorical triumph over her. Whose triumph is it?

My goal in this tune was to capture some of the feeling of an evil empire throwing a triumphal procession while gloating arrogantly over a defeated enemy, but also portraying the struggle in heroic tones (for the victors). I also wanted to weave in sounds which would convey the 'foreign oriential threat' of Cleopatra to Roman sensibilities.

I explore these "enemy" and "threatening" aspects of Cleopatra's depiction not because I want to perpetuate imperial propaganda about her, but because I want to see the propaganda for what it is, and understand what it tells us about Roman ideas of the foreign other.

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