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The Cynics generally looked down upon music, and Diogenes had a sneer for those who could tune a lyre, but were indifferent as to their soul being in a state of harmony. The Satura describes a contention between a devotee of music and one of its detractors. It may remind us of the way in which Zethus (in the Antiope of Euripides and Pacuvius) presses the claims of a practical life against his dreamy, music- loving brother Amphion. The prologue opens with Phonascus a professor) announcing himsel...f and his accomplishments (I) : music is natural to man (II) : it is the harmony of the spheres which regulates the universe (III) : workers sing over their daily toil (IVj : the vast audience in a theatre is melted by the tender notes of the flute, or excited by more stirring tones (V) : the priests of Cybele can tame the lion with the sound of their cymbals, as the statue on Mt. Ida commemorates (VI) : how much nobler is such a profession than the coarse amusements of the huntsman ! (VIP. To which the unmusical man replies, that after all it is an unprofitable art (VIII) ; and that we must admit as great a variety in the accomplishments of men, as we see in the colours of horses (IX).
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The Cynics generally looked down upon music, and Diogenes had a sneer for those who could tune a lyre, but were indifferent as to their soul being in a state of harmony. The Satura describes a contention between a devotee of music and one of its detractors. It may remind us of the way in which Zethus (in the Antiope of Euripides and Pacuvius) presses the claims of a practical life against his dreamy, music- loving brother Amphion. The prologue opens with Phonascus a professor) announcing himsel...f and his accomplishments (I) : music is natural to man (II) : it is the harmony of the spheres which regulates the universe (III) : workers sing over their daily toil (IVj : the vast audience in a theatre is melted by the tender notes of the flute, or excited by more stirring tones (V) : the priests of Cybele can tame the lion with the sound of their cymbals, as the statue on Mt. Ida commemorates (VI) : how much nobler is such a profession than the coarse amusements of the huntsman ! (VIP. To which the unmusical man replies, that after all it is an unprofitable art (VIII) ; and that we must admit as great a variety in the accomplishments of men, as we see in the colours of horses (IX).
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