User:Stuart Randolph

Stuart Randolph is the user page of Stuart Randolph Lyons,the author of three books on the Roman poet Horace. "The Fleeting Years", published by Staffordshire University Press in 1996 (ISBN 1-897898-25-8), was subtitled "Odes of Horace from the Augustan Age of Rome" and was a new verse translation with an introduction by the author, a foreword by Sir Jeremy Morse and a note by Professor Christine King, Vice-Chancellor of Staffordshire University. The book was named by Malcolm Rutherford as a Financial Times Book Choice of the Year. "Horace's Odes and the Mystery of Do-Re-Mi" was published by Aris & Phillips, an imprint of Oxbow Books, Oxford, in 2007 (ISBN 978-0-85668-790-1). This contained a revised edition of Lyons' earlier verse translations of Horace, with the addition of the Carmen Saeculare, and an introduction which put forward the case for the Horace of the Odes being not just a literary craftsman, but a songwriter and entertainer. The "do-re-mi mystery" referred to in the title is unravelled in the third section of the introduction. It explains how Guido d'Arezzo used the melody of the Ode to Phyllis (4.11) to invent his do-re-mi mnemonic in about 1030 AD. Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill OBE, then Director of the British School at Rome and now Master of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, described Lyons' exposition as "brilliant detective work" and his translations as "elegant, clear and deceptively simple" which "put the tune back into Horace's songs". Lyons' most recent book "Music in the Odes of Horace", pulished by Aris & Phillips in 2010 (ISBN 978-0-85668-844-7)is the culmination of the author's fifteeen years of research into the subject. The first half of the books set out full evidence for musical content and performance in Horace's Odes. The second half describes the early medieval musical reception of Horace, with a particular focus on three manuscripts. Montpellier H425 contains the musical arrangement for the Ode to Phyllis which shares a common ancestor with Guido d'Arezzo's "ut-re-mi" mnemonic (do-re-mi). Paris 7979 has footnote glosses for several odes, but these are mainly pedagogical, helping students to remember and articulate their Latin. The long-lost St Petersburg 4 codex is a virtual songbook, a document of musical record with interlinear music for all the Parade Odes. Lyons is also the author of three influential policy pamplets published by the Centre for Policy Studies. "Can Consignia Deliver?" (ISBN 1-903219-28-0), published in March 2001, analysed the Post Office and Royal Mail, and recommended their treatment as two separate enterprises, with the latter a candidate for privatisation. "A Department for Busines" (ISBN 1-903219-36-1), published in October 2001, criticised the excessive remit and budget of the then Department for Trade and Industry, and recommended a slimmer department focussed on business and commerce. "Harnessing Our Genius" (ISBN 1-903219-52-3), published in 2003, commented on the management of Britain's science base and recommended more efficient structures and processes in the Office of Science and Technology and the Reseaerch Councils. Lyons was Senior Scholar in Classics at King's College, Cambridge. His full-time career has been in industry.