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Plut. Mor., Concerning Music 9 — Concerning Music, Plutarch; served verbatim
Music then received its first constitution from Terpander atSparta. Of the second constitution, Thaletas the Gortinean, Xenodanius the Cytherean, Xenocritus the Locrian, Polymnestus the Colophonian, and Sacadas the Argive were deservedly acknowledged to be the authors. For these, having introduced the Gymnopaediae into Lacedaemon, settled the so-called Apodeixeis (or Exhibitions) 110 COI^CERNING MUSIC. among the Arcadians, and the Endymatia in Argos. Now Thaletas, Xenodamus, and Xenocritus, and their schoUirs, were poets that addicted themselves altogether to making of paeans ; Polymnestus was all for the Orthian or military strain, and Sacadas for elegies. Others, and among the rest Pratinas, affirm Xenodamus to have been a maker of songs for dances (Hyporchemes), and not of paeans ; and a tune of Xenodamus is preserved, which plainly appears to have been composed for a dance. Now that a paean differs from a song made for a dance is manifest from the poems of Pindar, who made both.

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Concerning Music, Plutarch — translated by John Philips (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
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