What's a Lyre?

The next Arabesque is Arabesque à la Lyre.  Which literally translates as "Arabesque with the lyre".  Its basically a Cecchetti Method Third Arabesque but with the palms facing up as if the dancer was holding a lyre.  Dusting off my Greek musical history, a lyre is basically a hand held harp.  I looked everywhere for a picture of this, and all I came up with were some stick figures from Zazzle.com.  This posting made me finalize my decision to have a photo shoot with some of my students so that I can have accurate pictures of all of these positions of dance.  I will post those soon...

Arabesque à Deux Bras

Arabesque with two arms is from my understanding is also a Third Arabesque in the Cecchetti Method.