music
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melody · singing · song · that piano in the schoolroom · the science and skill of music
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Orations
The art of musical performance, capable of stirring passions but insufficient alone to reform character.
But the science and skill of music cannot supply every cure, nor a complete amendment of character;
They say that once, when the flute-player Timotheus first gave a performance before King Alexander, he played in the king's own manner, with great skill and musicianship — no soft melody, nor a relaxed one, nor any of the kind that lead to ease and indolence, but, I believe, the very strain that is called the orthian, the air sacred to Athena.
We too, then, may reasonably prove no worse than a flute-player in the work that is ours, and may find words no less manly and high-minded than his music's strains;
Republic
The counterpart of gymnastics in the guardians' earlier education, imparting harmony and grace through habit rather than science
It educated the guardians through habits, imparting by the melody a certain harmony of spirit that is not science, and by the rhythm measure and grace, and also qualities akin to these in the words of tales that are fables and those that are more nearly true.
Law in a Free State
The school subject of music, chiefly piano instruction, discussed and critiqued as commonly taught to girls.
O, that piano in the schoolroom, those five-finger exercises;