Charmides
    Part
  1 Text |              harmony from the art of music, and building from the art


Cratylus
    Part
  2 Intro|            moving together’ alike in music and in the harmony of the
  3 Intro|             with musical notes’), of music, of children learning to
  4 Intro|             of sentences. It was the music, not of song, but of speech,
  5 Intro|              can produce a far finer music than any crude imitations
  6 Text |         signifying all four of them,—music, and prophecy, and medicine,
  7 Text |             name of the Muses and of music would seem to be derived
  8 Text |          again, an imitation of what music imitates; these, in my judgment,
  9 Text |             have to do with them are music and drawing?~HERMOGENES:


Crito
    Part
 10 Text |          your father to train you in music and gymnastic?’ Right, I


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 11 Text |              I suppose that you mean music.~SOCRATES: Yes, that is
 12 Text |             excellence of the art of music, as I told you truly that
 13 Text |            what is the excellence of music—to be what?~ALCIBIADES:


Gorgias
    Part
 14 Intro|             treats of discourse; but music and medicine, and other
 15 Intro|               and he who has learned music is a musician, and he who
 16 Text |          GORGIAS: Yes.~SOCRATES: And music is concerned with the composition
 17 Text |               And he who has learned music a musician?~GORGIAS: Yes.~
 18 Text |            you would call sounds and music beautiful for the same reason?~
 19 Text |              that there should be no music in the chorus which I provided;


Ion
    Part
 20 Text |           falling under the power of music and metre they are inspired


Laches
    Part
 21 Text |        supplied me with a teacher of music for my sons,—Damon, the
 22 Text |           any pleasant instrument of music; for truly he has in his


Laws
    Book
 23 1    |        without correct principles of music; these are necessary to
 24 1    |        treatment of the subject, and music again runs up into education
 25 2    |        better trained in dancing and music—he who is able to move his
 26 2    |         however, in passing, that in music there certainly are figures
 27 2    |              there are melodies: and music is concerned with harmony
 28 2    |               that the excellence of music is to give pleasure to our
 29 2    |         amusement which are given by music, can we suppose that the
 30 2    |              what are the laws about music and dancing in Egypt?~Athenian.
 31 2    |          either in these arts, or in music at all. And you will find
 32 2    |          what I am telling you about music is true and deserving of
 33 2    |             say that the true use of music and of choral festivities
 34 2    |               that the excellence of music is to be measured by pleasure.
 35 2    |          chance persons; the fairest music is that which delights the
 36 2    |             and in his melodies, the music of temperate and brave and
 37 2    |         introduced in dancing and in music, generally not under the
 38 2    |             would like to have about music; and hence there occurred
 39 2    |          principles of education and music which prevail among you
 40 2    |       Athenian. Do we not regard all music as representative and imitative?~
 41 2    |               when any one says that music is to be judged of by pleasure,
 42 2    |        admitted; and if there be any music of which pleasure is the
 43 2    |      pleasure is the criterion, such music is not to be sought out
 44 2    |              only that other kind of music which is an imitation of
 45 2    |            the best kind of song and music ought not to seek for that
 46 2    |        imitated, whether in drawing, music, or any other art, he who
 47 2    |           the peculiar difficulty of music. Music is more celebrated
 48 2    |        peculiar difficulty of music. Music is more celebrated than
 49 2    |             speech, and drinking and music, will change his character
 50 2    |            by us to be the origin of music and gymnastic.~Cleinias.
 51 2    |             we have ventured to term music.~Cleinias. We were right.~
 52 2    |         Cleinias. Exactly.~Athenian. Music, which was one half of the
 53 2    | Lacedaemonian, and we have discussed music and not gymnastic, what
 54 2    |              more familiar than with music.~Cleinias. There will not.~
 55 3    |         Marsyas and Olympus invented music, and Amphion the lyre—not
 56 3    |        original subject of laws into music and drinking–bouts, the
 57 3    |              speak of the laws about music—that is to say, such music
 58 3    |           music—that is to say, such music as then existed—in order
 59 3    |              from the beginning. Now music was early divided among
 60 3    |              to confuse one style of music with another. And the authority
 61 3    |           what is just and lawful in music; raging like Bacchanals
 62 3    |            ignorantly affirming that music has no truth, and, whether
 63 3    |     understanding of good and bad in music and poetry; and instead
 64 3    |         would have been done; but in music there first arose the universal
 65 3    |            was previously said about music and drinking, and what preceded,
 66 4    |        performed; lyric measures and music of every other kind have
 67 6    |              to appoint directors of music and gymnastic, two kinds
 68 6    |          judges of gymnastics and of music; these again are divided
 69 6    |            the one having to do with music, the other with gymnastics;
 70 6    |              judge of horses; but in music there shall be one set of
 71 6    |             some one who understands music, and he in the scrutiny
 72 6    |              of the solo and concert music for that year; and he who
 73 7    |              use of the dance and of music.~Cleinias. Well, Stranger,
 74 7    |           the body, and the other of music, which is designed for the
 75 7    |          assertion, that rhythms and music in general are imitations
 76 7    |              paradox that strains of music are our laws (nomoi), and
 77 7    |             be our legislators about music and as to the director of
 78 7    |           they may regulate dancing, music, and all choral strains,
 79 7    |              the irregular strain of music is always made ten thousand
 80 7    |            the characteristic of all music. And if a man be brought
 81 7    |            of the orderly and severe music, when he hears the opposite
 82 7    |              in the sweet and vulgar music, he deems the severer kind
 83 7    |            art of war and the art of music, and the children shall
 84 7    |         girls share in gymnastic and music, while the grown–up women,
 85 7    |             others. About dances and music and choral strains, I have
 86 7    |             or less time in learning music than the law allows. And
 87 7    |              and useful knowledge of music in three years; for opposite
 88 7    |            the principles concerning music which we are laying down.
 89 7    |           been elected a director of music receive these rules from
 90 7    |           said about the teaching of music, let us speak in like manner
 91 7    |             is to have the charge of music and gymnastic.~Cleinias.
 92 7    |               combining dancing with music, and assigning to the several
 93 8    |            Likewise, what relates to music has been, for the most part,
 94 10   |              to one another, such as music and painting create and
 95 10   |          failed not when drinking or music were the themes of discourse,
 96 12   |          they shall have contests in music and gymnastics, and in horsemanship,
 97 12   |           judge of dances and of all music, and the superintendents
 98 12   |           competitor in gymnastic or music, or any other sort of contest,
 99 12   |           and seen the connection of music with these things, and harmonized


Menexenus
    Part
100 Text |              and he was my master in music, as she was in rhetoric.
101 Text |         example, one who had learned music of Lamprus, and rhetoric


Meno
    Part
102 Text |              and had them trained in music and gymnastics and all sorts


Phaedo
    Part
103 Intro|              that he should practise music; and as he was about to
104 Text |        dreams ‘that I should compose music.’ The same dream came to
105 Text |           words: ‘Cultivate and make music,’ said the dream. And hitherto
106 Text |              the noblest and best of music. The dream was bidding me
107 Text |           the dream might have meant music in the popular sense of
108 Text |              like other harmonies of music or of works of art, of course


Phaedrus
    Part
109 Text |            any.~SOCRATES: A lover of music like yourself ought surely
110 Text |           the philosophers, of whose music the grasshoppers make report
111 Text |             of poems, whether set to music or not; and to Solon and


Philebus
    Part
112 Intro|              regarded as higher than music, which for the most part
113 Intro|         those derived from sounds of music and from knowledge. He would
114 Intro|             the more empirical arts, music is given as an example;
115 Intro|          human life, is depreciated. Music is regarded from a point
116 Intro|           from infinity to unity. In music, for example, you may begin
117 Intro|              and measure in them. In music, for example, especially
118 Intro|            alone. And must I include music, which is admitted to be
119 Text |            SOCRATES: Sound is one in music as well as in grammar?~PROTARCHUS:
120 Text |         would know almost nothing of music.~PROTARCHUS: Nothing.~SOCRATES:
121 Text |           perfect the whole frame of music?~PROTARCHUS: Yes, certainly.~
122 Text |           more, assuredly.~SOCRATES: Music, for instance, is full of
123 Text |              skilful conjecture; the music of the flute is always trying
124 Text |          kinds,—the arts which, like music, are less exact in their
125 Text |        SOCRATES: And am I to include music, which, as I was saying


Protagoras
    Part
126 Text |         astronomy, and geometry, and music (he gave a look at Hippias
127 Text |              than to his reading and music; and the teachers do as
128 Text |         poets; and these they set to music, and make their harmonies


The Republic
    Book
129 2    |         gymnastics for the body, and music for the soul. ~True. ~Shall
130 2    |              we begin education with music, and go on to gymnastics
131 2    |                And when you speak of music, do you include literature
132 2    |              said that we must teach music before gymnastics. ~Quite
133 3    |             sorts of rhythms, if the music and the style are to correspond,
134 3    |         friend, I said, that part of music or literary education which
135 3    |             and which are not set to music; both will conform to the
136 3    |       together; even the panharmonic music is only an imitation of
137 3    |           youth should be trained in music and on the grounds which
138 3    |               he said. ~Thus much of music, which makes a fair ending;
139 3    |            what should be the end of music if not the love of beauty? ~
140 3    |             I agree, he said. ~After music comes gymnastics, in which
141 3    |     Certainly. Gymnastics as well as music should begin in early years;
142 3    |           twin sister of that simple music which we were just now describing. ~
143 3    |           gymnastics which, like our music, is simple and good; and
144 3    |       disease; whereas simplicity in music was the parent of temperance
145 3    |         educated only in that simple music which, as we said, inspires
146 3    |          Neither are the two arts of music and gymnastics really designed,
147 3    |             an exclusive devotion to music? ~In what way shown? he
148 3    |               And, when a man allows music to play upon him and to
149 3    |              deal, then the power of music weakening the spirit renders
150 3    |        reverse of a great student of music and philosophy, at first
151 3    |       intention. ~And he who mingles music with gymnastics in the fairest
152 3    |             of themselves and of the music which they have learned,
153 4    |              should be directed-that music and gymnastics be preserved
154 4    |              says that when modes of music change, the fundamental
155 4    |     foundations of their fortress in music? ~Yes, he said; the lawlessness
156 4    |             play, and by the help of music have gained the habit of
157 4    |      soldiers, and educating them in music and gymnastics; we were
158 4    |              the united influence of music and gymnastics will bring
159 5    |              assigned to the men was music and gymnastics. Yes. ~Then
160 5    |            Then women must be taught music and gymnastics and also
161 5    |         women's attainments, both in music and gymnastics, and above
162 5    |         musician, and another has no music in her nature? ~Very true. ~
163 5    |       nothing unnatural in assigning music and gymnastics to the wives
164 5    |             this is what the arts of music and gymnastics, when present
165 6    |            whether in painting or in music, or, finally, in politics,
166 7    |               But what do you say of music, what also entered to a
167 7    |             into our former scheme? ~Music, he said, as you will remember,
168 7    |              harmony in them. But in music there was nothing which
169 7    |             in your recollection; in music there certainly was nothing
170 7    |              Undoubtedly; and yet if music and gymnastics are excluded,
171 8    |         muses, first by undervaluing music; which neglect will soon
172 8    |         honored gymnastics more than music. ~Undoubtedly, he said,
173 8    |    Philosophy, I said, tempered with music, who comes and takes up
174 9    |              he will, if he has true music in him. ~And in the acquisition
175 10   |         stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited


The Sophist
    Part
176 Intro|             reconciled by the art of music’ (Symp.). He does indeed
177 Text |      THEAETETUS: Yes.~STRANGER: Take music in general and painting


The Statesman
    Part
178 Intro|           inferior sciences, such as music and others; and there is
179 Intro|             which determines whether music is to be learnt or not,
180 Intro|              the voice, the notes of music, the workings of the mind,
181 Intro|          gold, the learning to read, music, statuary, painting, medicine,
182 Text |              produced by drawing and music, which are designed for
183 Text |             that the illustration of music may assist in exhibiting
184 Text |             such a thing as learning music or handicraft arts in general?~
185 Text |              them which painting and music supply, you must have praised
186 Text |           rhythmical movement and of music in general, when these have


The Symposium
    Part
187 Intro|       disagreements there cannot be. Music too is concerned with the
188 Intro|          says that the principles of music are simple in themselves,
189 Intro|              well as the ancients in music, and may be extended to
190 Text |           will also perceive that in music there is the same reconciliation
191 Text |             reconciled by the art of music; for if the higher and lower
192 Text |            in all these other cases, music implants, making love and
193 Text |              up among them; and thus music, too, is concerned with
194 Text |               Whence I infer that in music, in medicine, in all other
195 Text |          poet, even though he had no music in him before (A fragment
196 Text |          rest, and is concerned with music and metre, is termed poetry,
197 Text |               and the players of his music do so still: for the melodies


Theaetetus
    Part
198 Intro|           then the syllables. And in music, the notes, which are the
199 Intro|             Just as a note or two of music suffices to recall a whole
200 Intro|         small a part of speech or of music is produced by the impression
201 Text |       gentleman; still less with the music of discourse can he hymn
202 Text |           the elements or letters of music?~THEAETETUS: Exactly.~SOCRATES:


Timaeus
    Part
203 Intro|              the same combination of music and gymnastics. The doctrine
204 Intro|           the gymnast must cultivate music. The parts of the body too
205 Intro|             laws or forms of art and music which had lasted, ‘not in
206 Intro|            their power; the notes of music, the motions of the stars,
207 Intro|            number and the mystery of music were akin. There was a music
208 Intro|         music were akin. There was a music of rhythm and of harmonious
209 Intro|      connexion which existed between music and number, a fanciful or
210 Intro|              superadded. There was a music of the spheres as well as
211 Intro|           contain an allusion to the music of the spheres, which is
212 Text |            trained in gymnastic, and music, and all other sorts of
213 Text |    contributes. Moreover, so much of music as is adapted to the sound
214 Text |              enemy to philosophy and music, and rebellious against
215 Text |        motions, and should cultivate music and all philosophy, if he