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Single Idea 171

[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / a. Music ]

Full Idea

Music may be called a knowledge of the principles of love in the realm of harmony and rhythm.

Gist of Idea

Music is a knowledge of love in the realm of harmony and rhythm

Source

Plato (The Symposium [c.384 BCE], 187c)

Book Ref

Plato: 'The Symposium', ed/tr. Hamilton,W [Penguin 1951], p.55