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is mechanically determined by word accents. Far from it. Athenaeus skilfully gives his composition form and variety by shifts of register and of tonal focus, mainly between a and e', and by the contrast of chromatic and non-chromatic passages. At the same time he is at pains to set the words to suitably expressive melodic figures and lines. |
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13 Limenius, Paean and Processional
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(Come to this far-visible, twin-peaked Parnassian mountain-side and begin my hymn, Pierian Muses that dwell on the snow-covered crags of Helicon. Sing of the golden-haired Pythian god, the far-shooter with the fine lyre, Phoebus, whom blest Leto bore beside the famous lake, clasping in her labour the grey olive's vigorous stem.) |
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