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Martin Arnold's avatar

PS -- perhaps 'music' in Plato's works is often a bit wider than our use of 'music' today?

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Fr Thomas Plant's avatar

Yes, I think that’s got to be right: it would incorporate all the arts subject to the Muses, I suppose, though I’d need to check. It certainly involved theory.

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Martin Arnold's avatar

Thank you for this delightful essay

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