# Terpander; or, Music and the future

Author: Dent, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1876-1957

Genre: Category: Music

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76559

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Terpander%3B+or%2C+Music+and+the+future+Dent&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_All ancient writers who mention the progressive state of music in Greece, are unanimous in celebrating the talents of TERPANDER. Several writers tell us that he added three strings to the lyre, which before his time had but four. Plutarch, in his “Laconic Institutions,” informs us that Terpander was fined by the Ephori for his innovations. However, in his Dialogue on Music, he likewise tells us that the same musician appeased a sedition at Sparta, among the same people, by the persuasive strains which he sung and played to them upon that occasion. There seems no other way of reconciling these two accounts, than by supposing that he had, by degrees, refined the public taste, or depraved h...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/terpander-or-music-and-the-future-76559/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/terpander-or-music-and-the-future-76559/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/terpander-or-music-and-the-future-76559/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/terpander-or-music-and-the-future-76559/chapters/4/index.md)