Aristotle on music
The philosopher Aristotle 2500 years ago he asked, speaking of music: it is formative for the character of the children or is a pleasure that makes them soft and weak and diverts them from…
Music is communication, not competition.
The philosopher Aristotle 2500 years ago he asked, speaking of music: it is formative for the character of the children or is a pleasure that makes them soft and weak and diverts them from…
It is with the Pythagoreanism that occurs one of the most amazing cultural revolutions of the West. Behind this revolution there’s a fundamental insight: the natural world that appears chaotic and erratic it is…
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In ancient Greece the term music takes on a different meaning than what nowadays we ascribe to it: it not only indicates the music itself, but it indicates more generally the literary and artistic…
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In Aristotle’s reflections about music we can detect some ideas that may seem quite distant from us, but not for this reason we should judge them irrelevant. These ideas concern specifically the way of…
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