Citharode
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| Occupation | |
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| Synonyms | kitharist (citharist)[a] |
Occupation type | professional performer |
Activity sectors | self-accompanied musical performance |
| Description | |
| Competencies | singing, strummed string instrument (lyre family),[b] music theory, music notation[c] |
Related jobs | Aulete / aulist (aulos player, "piper") |
A kitharode (Latinized citharode)[a][2] (Template:Langx Script error: No such module "IPA". and κιτηαρῳδός;[3] Template:Langx) or citharist,[1] was a classical Greek professional performer (singer) of the cithara, as one who used the cithara to accompany their singing. Famous citharodes included Terpander, Sappho, and Arion.
"Citharoedus" or "Citharede" was also an epithet of Apollo (Apollo Citharede), and the term is used to refer to statues which portray Apollo with his lyre.
See also
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- Relevant musical instruments
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- Related type of statuary
Footnotes
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- ^ a b c There are an elaborate variety of spellings, each altered to pronounce correctly in different languages, and to incorporate partial translations; since there is no modern form of kithara, that is typically left un-translated. (Strictly speaking, kitharoedos / citharoedus translates to "zitherist", but that seems to never be used.) Variants include:
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- Template:Langx (translit. Greek)
- citharode (Anglicised translit. Latin)
- kitharode (Anglicised translit. Greek)
- citharede (rare)
- citharoede (rare)
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A kitharode would automatically be expected to be able to also play a barbiton, lyre, and phorminx, provided it was a version with the same number of strings as the standard kithara.
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It is unclear how far back Greek musical notation goes. It may have only been a competency of kitharodes during the late classical period; from some point, both kitharodes and auletes would have required to simultaneously read two separate systems of notation: One for instrumental music and the other for sung music.
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References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."citharist". Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Merriam-Webster.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."citharode". Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lewis, Charlton T.; et al. (eds.). "citharoedus". An Elementary Latin Dictionary.
