The clearest sense of dithyramb as proto-tragedy comes from a surviving dithyramb by Bacchylides, though it was composed after tragedy had already developed fully.
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The clearest sense of dithyramb as proto-tragedy comes from a surviving dithyramb by Bacchylides, though it was composed after tragedy had already developed fully.
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The book was steeped in the intricacies of real estate law, which explained in part why it, like " Dithyramb, " went unpublished.
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Here, he suggests the name originates in the use of a chorus of goat-like satyrs in the original dithyrambs from which the tragic genre developed.
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After this success, he moved to Ely Cathedral in 1887 where he wrote the bulk of " Dithyramb ", possibly his greatest organ work.
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At the same time, choral odes begin to take on something of the form of dithyrambs reminiscent of the poetry of Bacchylides, featuring elaborate treatment of myths.
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Tragedy and comedy, he goes on to explain, are wholly imitative types; the dithyramb is wholly narrative; and their combination is found in epic poetry.
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Other composers basing vocal music on dithyrambs include Giuseppe Verdi ( " " Dithyrambe ", Op . 22 is based on an unnamed verse by Goethe.
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In archaic times, Arion developed the type of poem called dithyramb, the progenitor of tragedy, and Terpander invented the seven note musical scale for the lyre.
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Early dithyrambs were a " riotous affair " and Archilochus was prominent in the controversial development of Dionyssian worship on Paros ( possibly in relation to phallic rites ).
