Question Nr. 30
Plato’s most quoted sentence in Laws is: Education has two branches,—one of gymnastic, which is concerned with the body, and the other of music, whi...
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Question Nr. 31
The ancient Greeks gave great weight to the value of music in establishing and revealing character. Athenaeus in Deipnosophistae tells the story of Cleosthenes,...
Question Nr. 32
Plato, in his writings on music education, stressed the value of music in character building and the teaching of morals and ethics. For him, music was clearly a...
Question Nr. 33
Who among us is not moved by the thought of Mozart dancing at night in the winter in Vienna with his wife to keep warm because he could not afford fuel, or of B...
Question Nr. 34
Aristotle (b. 384 BC), in writing about education, in Ethica Nicomachea, observed that states of character arise out of activities … It makes no small dif...
Question Nr. 35
Aristotle wrote, in On Interpretation, This is the key to what we call Universality in music. Does it not also remind us that no matter how music is used (churc...
Question Nr. 36
Aristotle asks, Why do all men love music?
Question Nr. 37
Aristotle, in Ethica Nicomachea, discusses at some length the relationship of the quality of a man and the quality of the music he listens to, for example, R...
Question Nr. 38
How are we to answer Aristotle’s question in Problemata Why is it that some men spend their time in pursuits which they have chosen, though these are some...
Question Nr. 39
There is a cycle one finds in ancient societies that as a society becomes prosperous performing music is given over to slaves rather than the educated person. T...