the Republic of | | Boeotia. Simmicus, inventor of an Lacedaemonia, | | instrument with thirty-five strings, and gives laws | | called Simmikon or Simmicium. to the Spartans. | | Thaletas, of Creta, musician and poet, | | composes in Sparta, under Lycurgus, | | the laws and war-songs for the voice. | | Phoecinus, of Greece, sketches the | | first musical rules. | | Rome founded by | 800 | Olympus, of Phrygia, flutist, Romulus (754). | | invents the Enharmonic scale. | | | 720 | Archilochus, of Paros, singer, poet, | | and instrumentalist. | | | | Important improvements in the music | | of the Greeks. | | | 700 | Tyrtaeus, of Athens, poet, singer, | | and trumpeter, composes war-songs for | | Sparta against Messenia. | | | 650 | TERPANDER, of Lesbos, lyrist, | | flutist, and composer. Important | | progress in the music of the Greeks. | | Circumnavigation | 625 | Arion, of Lesbos, kithara-player, of the coast of | | singer and poet, invents the Africa under | | Dithyrambs, or hymns of Bacchus, and Necho, King | | improves the chorus-singing. He is of Egypt (615). | | recorded to have healed sick persons | | by means of music. The same is also | | recorded of Menias, a Greek musician, | | who lived about this time. | | Nebuchadnezzar, | 600 | Stesichorus, of Sicily, composes King of Babylon, | | choruses with instrumental carries the | | accompaniment, besides airs to his Jews into captivity. | | poems. | | | | Alcaeus, of Mytilene, singer, lyrist, | | and poet. | | Solon, law-giver, | | Sappho, of Mytilene, female singer, in Athens. | | lyrist, and poetess. To her is | | ascribed the invention of a stringed | | instrument called Barbitos. | |