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Aristides is convinced of the value of music for educational and therapeutic purposes. Orderly, manly melodies are required in education; others may be useful in treating people in different emotional states. Not everyone responds as quickly or in the same way as everyone else to a given type of music. Sex, age, and other factors may make a difference, and some experimentation may be necessary.104 |
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sible in music, is very large; see especially 2.8 p. 67.5-14. But elsewhere Aristides reckons with a simple trinity of musical characters: depressant, stimulant, and calming (pp. 30.12-17, 40.14-15). Cf. Cleon. p. 206.6-18, 'the stimulant kind of composition is that which conveys grandeur, manly exaltation, heroic deeds, and related emotions, as used especially by tragedy . . . The depressant is that which reduces the soul to an abject, unmanly state; it will be appropriate to unhappy love, death, disaster, and the like. The calming type is that associated with equanimity and a situation of freedom and peace. Suited to it will be hymns, paeans, encomia, precepts, etc.' |
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104 Aristid. Quint. 2.3-6, 14. |
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