Uploaded January 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Here's a fantasy composition I made for the magical winter season. Happy new year!
In Greek mythology the Hyperboreans were mythical people who lived "beyond the North Wind". The Greeks thought that Boreas, the god of the North Wind lived in Thrace, and therefore Hyperborea indicates a region that lay far to the north of Thrace.
This land was supposed to be perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours a day, which to modern ears suggests a possible location within the Arctic Circle. However, it is also possible that Hyperborea had no real physical location at all. According to the classical Greek poet Pindar:
neither by ship nor on foot would you find
the marvellous road to the assembly of the Hyperboreans.
Pindar also described the otherworldly perfection of the Hyperboreans:
Never the Muse is absent
from their ways: lyres clash and flutes cry
and everywhere maiden choruses whirling.
Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed
in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle they live.
Libraries used include: Hollywood Strings, Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds, Symphonic Orchestra Harp, and Spitfire Evo Strings 2.
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Here's a fantasy composition I made for the magical winter season. Happy new year!
In Greek mythology the Hyperboreans were mythical people who lived "beyond the North Wind". The Greeks thought that Boreas, the god of the North Wind lived in Thrace, and therefore Hyperborea indicates a region that lay far to the north of Thrace.
This land was supposed to be perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours a day, which to modern ears suggests a possible location within the Arctic Circle. However, it is also possible that Hyperborea had no real physical location at all. According to the classical Greek poet Pindar:
neither by ship nor on foot would you find
the marvellous road to the assembly of the Hyperboreans.
Pindar also described the otherworldly perfection of the Hyperboreans:
Never the Muse is absent
from their ways: lyres clash and flutes cry
and everywhere maiden choruses whirling.
Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed
in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle they live.
Libraries used include: Hollywood Strings, Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds, Symphonic Orchestra Harp, and Spitfire Evo Strings 2.
Download my music here: jeremywiebe.bandcamp.com
Be my friend on Facebook: facebook.com/jwiebecomposer/?ref=hl
Listen to me on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/jeremy-wiebe-composer
Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/WiebeMusic
Join my circle on Google+: plus.google.com/u/0/+JeremyWiebeComposer/posts
