As a composer of choral lyrics, Bacchylides was probably responsible also for the performance, involving him in frequent travel to venues where musicians and choirs awaited instruction.
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Lyric and drama were further divided into more genres : lyric in four ( elegiac, iambic, monodic lyric and choral lyric ); drama in three ( tragedy, comedy and pastoral drama ).
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With the appearance of Stesichorus and the evolution of choral lyric, a learned and artificial kind of poetry began to be cultivated in Greece, and a new form, the epode-song, came into existence.
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The archaic choral lyric poetry spanned about three hundred years, starting with the poet, Alcman, in the 7th century BCE and evolving to the works of Timotheos ( or Timotheus of Miletus ) in the 4th century BCE.
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As a technical term in metrical analysis, the term " lekythion " is first attested in the 2nd century AD, in the " Handbook of Metrics " by the grammarian choral lyrics from the tragedy " Phoenissae ".
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Stylistic hallmarks are said to be juxtaposition of the modern world with the ancient, technical skill and musicality; wit, passion, lyrical intelligence, internal and half-rhyme, enjambement and unusual energy within and against the line,'As if Wallace Stevens had hijacked Sylvia Plath with a dash of punk Sappho thrown in . " Quoted influences include Gerard Manley Hopkins and Greek choral lyric.
