ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the beginnings of the rise of choral lyric, and especially the reason why the Dorian cities had so much to do with it. It explains that why opera originated in Italy and not in France, for instance, or England; yet people know far more of the musical history of that time than they can ever hope to know of its development in early Greece. Then the chapter turns to a different race, the Dorians, and discuss their one great contribution to poetry. The Dorians developed choral lyric and impressed their language upon it, although it is far from being the case that Dorian poets were the only great artists in poetry field. The chapter describe two centres of the movement, the Peloponnesos and Sicily; somewhat later, Boiotia contributed the greatest name of all, that of Pindar.
