Lyra (disambiguation)

Lyra is a constellation.

Lyra may also refer to:

Music

Instruments

• Lyre, a stringed musical instrument used in ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece and elsewhere
• Lyres of Ur, a stringed musical instrument used in ancient Mesopotamia
• Byzantine lyra, a bowed string musical instrument used in the Byzantine Empire
• Lyra (Cretan), a bowed instrument used in folk music in Crete, Greece
• Lira Calabrese, a bowed instrument used in folk music in Calabria, Italy
• Lira da braccio, a European bowed string instrument of the Renaissance
• Kemenche, a bowed instrument used in folk music in Turkey, Greece and Iran
• RCA Lyra, a line of digital audio players

Songs / Compositions

• "Lyra" (song), a 2007 song by Kate Bush
• "Lyra", a song by Breaking Benjamin from the 2018 album Ember
• "Lyra", a song by Big Red Machine from their self-titled album
• Lyra, a composition for trumpet and piano by Hale A. VanderCook

People

• Lyra (name), people and fictional characters with the name

Places

• The Latin name of Lier, Belgium
• K. Lyra, a Lier football club
• K. Lyra-Lierse Berlaar, a Lier football club
• Lyra, Queensland, a locality in Australia
• Lyra railway station
• Lyra, Ohio, a community in the United States
• Lyra Reef, a coral atoll in Oceania

Vessels

• HMS Lyra, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy
• Alfa-class submarine (Russian: Лира, Lyra), a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines with a NATO reporting name of Alfa class

Other uses

• Lyra, aerial hoop used in circus performance
• Lyra (neuroanatomy) or psalterium, part of the brain
• Lyra (virtual assistant), an intelligent personal assistant
• Lyra, a novel series by Patricia Wrede
• Lyra (TV series), a Philippine television drama series
• Lyra (codec), a lossy audio codec

See also

• LYRA (Lyman Alpha Radiometer) – a solar ultraviolet radiometer
• Lira (disambiguation)
• Lyran (disambiguation)
• Lyria (disambiguation)
• Lyre (disambiguation)