1. According to the Suda, Melanippides wrote lyric songs and dithyrambs . 2. Plutarch contrasted the dithyramb 's wild and Athenian tragedy. 3. Instrumental dithyrambs were composed by Robert Volkmann and Hermann Ritter. 4. The collection is divided into five sections interrupted by four long dithyrambs . 5. Bacchylides'dithyramb is a dialogue between a solitary singer and a choir. 6. By Thespis'time, the dithyramb had evolved far away from its cult roots. 7. Thespis was a singer of dithyrambs ( songs about stories from mythology with choric refrains ). 8. Richard Edward Wilson's 1983 " Dithyramb " is for oboe and clarinet. 9. This is especially interesting because Arion is credited with the invention of the dithyramb , a dionysiac song. 10. Nikolai Medtner composed several dithyrambs , including a set of three for solo piano as his Opus 10.
