1st millennium BC in music

2nd millennium BC in music - 1st millennium BC in music - 1st millennium in music

Events

  • 586 BC – Sakadas of Argos wins the prize for aulos playing at the Pythian Games, the first of three times. His aulos nomoi, especially one portraying the victorious combat of Apollo with the Python, remained popular for over two hundred years (Anderson and Mathiesen 2001).
  • 405 BC – Aristophanes, in The Frogs, defends Aeschylus' treatment of poetry and music against the brilliance of Euripides, whom he criticizes for many musical transgressions, and charges Socrates with having advocated the destruction of the musical and literary traditions of tragedy (Anderson, Mathiesen, and Anderson 2001a).

Classical music

Musical theatre

  • 408 BC – EuripidesOrestes (one of the earliest surviving fragments of ancient Greek music is from this play)
  • 409 BC – Euripides – Iphigenia in Aulis

Births

Deaths

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See also

List of years in music

Sources

  • Anderson, Warren, and Thomas J. Mathiesen. 2001. "Sacadas [Sakadas] of Argos". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
  • Anderson, Warren, Thomas J. Mathiesen, and Robert Anderson. 2001a. "Aristophanes". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
  • Anderson, Warren, Thomas J. Mathiesen, and Robert Anderson. 2001b. "Euripides". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
  • Bélis, Annie (ed.). 1992. Corpus des inscriptions de Delphes, vol. 3: "Les Hymnes à Apollon". Paris: De Boccard. ISBN 2-86958-051-7
  • Pöhlmann, Egert, and Martin L. West. 2001. Documents of Ancient Greek Music: The Extant Melodies and Fragments, edited and transcribed with commentary by Egert Pöhlmann and Martin L. West. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-815223-X
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