1. The main Greek texts are collected in D.L. Page, Poetae melici graeci (Oxford, 1962); E. Lobel and D.L. Page, Poetarum Lesbiorum fragmenta (Oxford, 1955), and M.L. West, Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati (Oxford, 1971–2). Translations of most of the relevant poems will be found in Lyra graeca and Greek Elegy and Iambus with the Anacreontea, ed. J. M. Edmonds (Loeb Classical Library).
2. Some of these writings are collected in A. D. Barker, Greek Musical Writings, i: The Musician and his Art (Cambridge, 1984).
3. On the history and culture of the period see A.R. Burn, The Lyric Age of Greece (London, 1960), and especially A. Snodgrass, Archaic Greece (London, 1980).
4. The idea appeared first in H. T. Wade-Gery, The Poet of the Iliad (Cambridge, 1952).
5. A. Pickard-Cambridge, Dithyramb, Tragedy and Comedy, rev. edn. by T. B. L. Webster (Oxford, 1962); see for instance pp.9–10.