music
idea · 4 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
melody · harmony · 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.
so violently was he stirred by the music's melody and the rhythm of the playing.
But the science and skill of music cannot supply every cure, nor a complete amendment of character;
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;
Charmides
The art by which harmony is known, cited as one of several specific crafts distinct from temperance.
For of course he knows health by means of medicine, not temperance, and harmony by means of music, not temperance, and building by means of the builder’s art, not temperance;
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;