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cut off two of his nine strings, only leaving him the choice whether he would sacrifice the two lowest or the two highest. Some scholars consider this anecdote doubtful; for it is not improbable that the number of strings had been increased at an earlier period. What is not controversial is that
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in the 1670s. This was a sort of moral screed against "beer fiddlers", or Printz's caricature of "overly sensual" musicians.
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Among the innovations which he is said to have made, was the addition of two strings to the
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Phrynnis earned the ire of these poets owing to his technique of "bending" or "turning" (
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An ahistorical version of Phrynnis was used as a main character in the treatise called
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Phrynnis was the first who gained the victory in the musical contests established by
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Trophies of Victory: Public Building in Periklean Athens
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek
Mytilene
dithyrambic
ancient Greece
Peloponnesian War
Lesbos
Athens
Aeolic Greek
Lesbian
citharoedic
Aristocleides
Terpander
Pherecrates
Aristophanes
heptachord
Plutarch
Sparta
Ephors
Pericles
Panathenaic Games
Timotheus of Miletus
Wolfgang Printz
Comic Business: Theatricality, Dramatic Technique, and Performance Contexts of Aristophanic Comedy
Oxford University Press
ISBN
9780198152712
August Meineke
Aristophanes

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