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TERPANDER

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TERPANDER , of Antissa in See also:

Lesbos, See also:Greek poet and musician. About the See also:time of the Second Messenian See also:war, he settled in See also:Sparta, whither, according to some accounts, he had been summoned by command of the Delphian See also:oracle, to compose the See also:differences which had arisen between different classes inthe See also:state. Here he gained the See also:prize in the musical contests at the festival See also:Carnea (676-2 B.C.; See also:Athenaeus, 635 E.). He is regarded as the real founder of Greek classical See also:music, and of lyric See also:poetry; but as to his innovations in music our See also:information is imperfect. According to See also:Strabo (xiii. p. 618) he increased the number of strings in the See also:lyre from four to seven; others take the fragment cf Terpander on which Strabo bases his statement (See also:Bergk, 5) to mean that he See also:developed the citharoedic nomos (sung to the See also:accompaniment of the See also:cithara or lyre) by making the divisions of the See also:ode seven instead of four. The seven-stringed lyre was probably already in existence. Ter-pander 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. Fragments (the genuineness of which is doubtful) in T. Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci, iii.; see also O. See also:Lowe, De Terpandri Lesbii aetate (1869), who places him about 676 B.C.

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