Key Concept Missing in Chapter Body - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
Key Concept Missing in Chapter Body
Quoted text:
Aristoxenus (according to Athenaeus[1] XIV.632) decried the decadence of his times (already over two thousand years ago): “Now that our theatres have become utterly barbarized and this prostituted music has moved on into a state of grave corruption,” he accused; few people recalled the old musical arts. Athenaeus added his own view that “It happened that in ancient times the Greeks were music-lovers; but later, with the breakdown of order, when practically all the ancient customs fell into decay, this devotion to principle ceased, and debased fashions in music came to light, wherein every one who practised them substituted effeminacy for gentleness, and license and looseness for moderation. What is more, this fashion will doubtless be carried further if some one does not bring the music of our forebears once more to open practice.”[2]
[Omitted text: [Calliope story.]]
The Key Concept of “Calliope, the ninth muse, integrating the other eight muses by virtue of the aid to memory provided by music” is not discussed in this chapter’s body. Originally there was a note at this place in the chapter body that we omitted to add [Calliope story] here. Can you help us add it to the chapter body discussion and relate it to the chapter thesis? Please include what to add and where in the chapter to add it, and any sources.
Can you help us find and write out the relevant Calliope story here?
It probably relates to what was written in this first query in the Key Concepts section about ancient Calliope in the Key image section:
“Key image: Calliope, the ninth muse, integrating the other eight muses by virtue of the aid to memory provided by music.”
And possibly also this second query in the Key Concepts section about modern calliope in the Ultimate dissolution section:
“Ultimate dissolution: …‘Calliope’ descended from being the highest muse to the raucous merry-go-round organ.”
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- ↑ Athenaeus, “From the Sophists at Dinner,” in “The Greek View of Music” in Oliver Strunk (selected and annotated by), Source Readings in Music History: From Classical Antiquity through the Romantic Era (New York: 1950), p. 54.
- ↑ Athenaeus, “From the Sophists at Dinner,” in “The Greek View of Music” in Oliver Strunk (selected and annotated by), Source Readings in Music History: From Classical Antiquity through the Romantic Era (New York: 1950), p. 55.
