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On May 25, 2024, I accompanied the choir Terpander for their concert ‘Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard’.

May 25, 2024

In this concert, which featured many songs from Great Britain (Holst, Vaughan Williams, Britten), I accompanied Terpander on piano for, a.o., The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard from Benjamin Britten.

Simon Geirnaert

Postdoctoral researcher

My research interests include signal processing algorithm design for multi-channel biomedical sensor arrays (e.g., electroencephalography) with applications in attention decoding for brain-computer interfaces.

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Demonax | Hellenic Library Beta

FRAGMENT 1 TO ZEUS

Clement of Alexandria Miscellanies 6. 748 :

So the mode or scale of the barbarian psaltery (of David), displaying solemnity as it does and being very ancient, furnishes an example or foreshadowing of Terpander thus singing the praise of Zeus in the Dorian mode:

Zeus, the beginning of all, the leader of all; Zeus, to thee I bring this gift for a beginning of hymns.19

FRAGMENT 2 TO APOLLO

Suidas Lexicon : amphianaktixein: to sing the Nome of Terpander called the Orthian or High-pitched, of which the prelude begins:

Of the Far-flinging Lord come sing me, O my soul.20

FRAGMENT 3 21 TO APOLLO AND THE MUSES

Keil Grammatical Extracts 6. 6 : [on the Spondee]: This rhythm is so called from that of the songs sung to the flute at spondai or “libations,” such as:

Let us pour to the Daughters of Memory and their Lord the son of Leto.

FRAGMENT 4 22 TO THE DIOSCURI

Dionysius of Halicarnassus Composition 17 :

[on rhythms]: The rhythm which consists entirely of long syllables – called molossus by the write

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Terpander

7th-century BC Greek poet

Terpander (Ancient Greek: ΤέρπανδροςTerpandros), of Antissa in Lesbos, was a Greekpoet and citharede who lived about the first half of the 7th century BC. He was the father of Greek music and through it, of lyric poetry, although his own poetical compositions were few and in extremely simple rhythms. He simplified rules of the modes of singing of other neighboring countries and islands and formed, out of these syncopated variants, a conceptual system.^[1] Though endowed with an inventive mind, and the commencer of a new era of music, he attempted no more than to systematize the musical styles that existed in the music of Greece and Anatolia.^[2] Terpander is perhaps the earliest historically certain figure in the music of Ancient Greece.^[3]

Biography

He gained a reputation as a singer and composer, but after having killed a man in a brawl, he was exiled. ^[4]

About the time of the Second Messenian War, he settled in Sparta, to where, according to some accounts, he had been summoned by com