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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord{{Article buttons|override=The Creation of Order/Summer: Balancing Self-Expression With Group Order/5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord|DeepArea=The Creation of Order/Summer: Balancing Self-Expression With Group Order/5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord}}
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In Plato’s Laws[1] (II 672e) the idealized Athenian stranger stated that “the art of choral dance as a whole (choreia) is identical with education as a whole (paideia); and the part of it pertaining to the voice consists of rhythms and harmonies.”

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  1. ↑ Plato, Laws, Book II, p. 672e. From Plato in Twelve Volumes, R.G. Bury (tr.), Vols. 10 and 11 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1967 and 1968), via Tufts University’s Perseus Digital Library Project.