Calliope

Calliope was the eldest of the nine Muses, the Greek goddess of epic poetry, her name meaning "beautiful voice" from kalli and ops. Homer invoked her at the opening of the Odyssey. In nineteenth-century America, she lent her name to the steam-powered organs that sent their chords across riverboats and circus fields, a music of hiss and whistle. The revival of Calliope as a baby name has gathered real momentum in the last decade, ranked 499 and still rising, boosted in part by Grey's Anatomy's Dr. Torres. Four syllables of carousel-light and classical weight.