Choir song - Choir lyric

Japanese: 合唱隊歌 - がっしょうたいか（英語表記）choral lyric

A type of ancient Greek lyric poetry. It was sung by choirs to accompany dances at important public religious events, but in its heyday in the 6th century BC, tyrants and aristocrats in various regions also hired poets to sing for their private celebrations. In ancient times, the Dorian Spartans and the Aeolian island of Lesbos were the centers of poets, including Terpander, Alcman, and Arion, and at its height, Stesichorus of Sicily, Ibycus of southern Italy, Simonides and Bachylides of Ionia, and Pindar of Boeotia were active. The main types of plays were hymns, paian (songs to Apollo), hyporchēma (dance songs), partheneion (maiden songs), prosodion (procession songs), epithalamion (wedding songs), enkōmion (odes), thrēnos (elegies), dithyrambs, and epinikion (victory songs). Furthermore, choral singing was a part of the theatrical structure of Attic theatre, and so a chorus (koros) always appeared in tragedies and comedies.

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Japanese:

古代ギリシアの抒情詩の一種。公の重要な宗教行事の際に合唱隊によって舞踊とともに歌われたが，前6世紀の全盛時代には各地の僭主や貴族が私的祝典のためにも詩人を雇って，おかかえの合唱隊に歌わせた。古くはドーリス人のスパルタとアイオリス人のレスボス島が中心地で，テルパンドロス，アルクマン，アリオンらがおり，最盛期にはシチリア島のステシコロス，南イタリアのイビュコス，イオニアのシモニデスとバキュリデス，ボイオチアのピンダロスらが活躍。おもな種類は，賛歌，パイアン paian (アポロンに祈る歌) ，舞踏歌 hyporchēma，乙女歌 partheneion，行列歌 prosodion，エピタラミオン (祝婚歌) ，頌詩 enkōmion，挽歌 thrēnos，ディチュランボス，エピニキオン (競技祝勝歌) 。さらに合唱隊歌を演劇構成の一部としてアッチカ演劇が成立したため，悲劇と喜劇には必ず合唱隊 (コロス ) が登場した。

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