Relating to or characteristic of citharodes; of or pertaining to singing accompanied by cithara playing in ancient Greek tradition.
From citharoedi (the performers) plus the adjective-forming suffix '-ic', which creates descriptive words. The term preserves the Greek musical tradition's terminology in academic and historical contexts.
The citharoedic tradition was so formalized in ancient Greece that there were strict rules about which songs went with which instrument positions and finger techniques—it was essentially the classical music conservatory system of the ancient world, complete with competition judges who were probably just as picky as modern ones.
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