Terpander : the invention of music in the orientalizing period
The legend that Terpander rejected "four-voiced song" (τετράγηρυν ἀοιδάν) in favor of new songs on the seven-stringed lyre (ἐπτατονος φὸρμιγξ) epitomizes the Greek exposure, at the height of Assyrian power (c. 750-650 B.C.), to the Mesopotamian tradition of classical music. Terpander'...
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University College London (University of London)
2002
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