Terpander
Terpander (
music of Ancient Greece.[3]
Biography
About the time of the
Delphic Oracle to compose the differences that had arisen between different classes in the state. Here he gained the prize in the musical contests at the festival of Carneia.[4][5]
He is regarded as the real founder of Greek classical music and lyric poetry, but as to his innovations in music, our information is imperfect. According to
cithara or lyre) by making the divisions of the ode seven instead of four. The seven-stringed lyre was probably already in existence. Terpander is also said to have introduced several new rhythms in addition to the dactylic and to have been famous as a composer of drinking-songs (skolia).[4]
No poems attributed to Terpander survive complete, and very few lines of his are quoted by later Greek writers; it must be regarded as doubtful whether he worked in writing.
Terpander is said to have died, around
See also
- Orpheus
- Pericleitus, a pupil of Terpander
- Philammon
- Chrysothemis
- Maenads
Notes
- ^ From which the Greek music theory continued thereafter in all the improvements and refinements of later ages
- ^ Müller, Karl Otfried (1847). History of the Literature of Ancient Greece. Vol. I. p. 149.
- ISBN 978-0-393-09750-4.
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Terpander". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 647.
- ^ 676–2 BC; Athenaeus, 635 e.
- ^ xiii. p. 618
- ^ Alexander Beecroft (2010). Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China. p. 120.
- ^ Suda. Palatine Anthology.
γ315;9.488
- ^ Charles Dibdin (1805). Heads or Tails. Songs, &c. in Heads or Tails. p. 28.
- ^ The Guide to Knowledge. Vol. I. 1837. p. 312.
References
- Oarses-Zygia. J. Murray (1880). William Smith (ed.). Terpander. p. 1002.
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Further reading
- Müller, Karl Otfried (1840). History of the literature of ancient Greece. Vol. 1.
- Charles Rollin; James Bell (1870). The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians: including a history of the arts and sciences of the ancients. Vol. 2. Harper & Brothers. p. 412.
- Müller, Karl Otfried; Donaldson, John William (1858). History of the literature of ancient Greece. Translated by sir G.C. Lewis and J.W. Donaldson. Parker.
External links
Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Τέρπανδρος- "Terpander Poems".
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