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are the
dirge-like modes of music? Tell me, for you are a musician.”
“The mixed Lydian,The modes of
Greek music are known to the English reader only from Milton's allusions, his “Lap
me in soft Lydian airs” and, P.L. i. 549 f.,
his “Anon they move/ in perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood/ Of flutes and soft
recorders; such as rasied/ To highth of noblest temper heroes
old.” The adaptation of particualr modes, harmonies, or scales
to the expression of particular feelings is something that we are
obliged to accept on faith. Plato's statements here were challenged by
some later critics, but the majority believed that there was a
connection between modes of music and modes of feeling, as Rusk
that are called lax.” “Will you make
any use of them for warriors?” “None at all,”
he said; “but it would seem that you have left the Dorian and the Phrygian.”
“I don't knowPlato, like a lawyer
or popular essayist, affects ignorance of the technical details; or
perhaps rather he wishes to disengage his main principle from the
specialists' controversy about particular modes of music and their
names. the musical modes,” I said, “but leave
us that modeE)KEI/NHN may mean, but does not say, Dorian, which the
Laches(188 D) pronounces the only true Greek harmony.
This long anacoluthic sentence sums up the whole matter with impressive
repetition and explicit enumeration of all types of conduct