Laws
   Book
 1 2   |          of beauty of figure, and melody, and song, and dance; if
 2 2   |           of figure, or beautiful melody? When a manly soul is in
 3 2   |           that you may speak of a melody or figure having good rhythm
 4 2   |         speak metaphorically of a melody or figure having a “good
 5 2   |          in the way of rhythm, or melody, or words, to the young
 6 2   |       would they assign to them a melody or words which are of an
 7 2   |      figure of the dance from the melody, setting bare words to metre,
 8 2   |           and also separating the melody and the rhythm from the
 9 2   |          they ever know whether a melody would be rightly sung to
10 2   |         they are doing. Now every melody is right when it has suitable
11 2   |          help knowing the laws of melody and rhythm. But the aged
12 2   |         and invented dancing; and melody arousing and awakening rhythm,
13 3   |        judge for themselves about melody and song. And in this way
14 7   | consecrate every sort of dance or melody. First we should ordain
15 7   |         this will happen when the melody is inappropriate to them.
16 7   |           poet or composer of the melody gives another—also when


The Republic
   Book
17 3   |         Next in order will follow melody and song. ~That is obvious.
18 3   |        three parts-the words, the melody, and the rhythm; that degree
19 3   |  determined by us? ~Yes. ~And the melody and rhythm will depend upon
20 3   |      shall adapt the foot and the melody to words having a like spirit,
21 3   |         the words to the foot and melody. To say what these rhythms
22 3   |         rightly compared by us to melody and song composed in the
23 10  |         the sweet influence which melody and rhythm by nature have.


The Symposium
   Part
24 Text|        disciple of Love. Also the melody of the Muses, the metallurgy