Key Concept Missing in Chapter Body - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Key Concept Missing in Chapter Body
Quoted text:
Key image: Calliope, the ninth muse, integrating the other eight muses by virtue of the aid to memory provided by music.
This Key Concept of ancient Calliope is not discussed in this chapter’s body. Can you help us add it to the Chapter 5 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.
For a hint at where in the chapter body it might go, see also this query in the Chapter 5 body: There was originally a note at the end of the chapter in the author’s notes for “END OF CHAPTER 5” to add “[Calliope story]” after the paragraph beginning “Aristoxenus (according to Athenaeus[1] XIV.632) decried the decadence of his times (already over two thousand years ago)…” That was probably a note to add something about Calliope there. Can you help us fulfill that?
And see 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.”
Suggest adding chapter text (including what to add and where, and any sources) related to this query. Join the research!
- ↑ 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.
