Note 921 — Chapter VI · THE CHORUS

In Poet. c. 12 he defines the πάροδος as ἡ πρώτη λέξις ὅλου χοροῦ, implying that other odes were also sung by the whole chorus. If so, the στάσιμα, which were far the most important of the other odes, must have been so sung. Whether the expression ὅλα χορικὰ μέλη, applied to the στάσιμα, means ‘sung by the whole chorus’, or merely ‘unbroken’, as opposed to the κόμμοι, is uncertain.