Plato once wrote in his Laws about those who were
ignorant “about what is right and legitimate in the realm of the muses”. He
observed that they were, “Possessed by a frantic and unhallowed lust for
pleasure, they contaminated laments with hymns and paeans with dithyrambs,
actually imitated the strains of the flute on the harp, and created universal
confusion of forms. Thus their folly led
them unintentionally to slander their profession by the assumption that in
music there is no such thing as right or wrong, the right standard of judgment
being the pleasure given to the hearer, be he high or low.” Music
in the Western World, Annotated by Piero Weiss and Richard
Taruskin, p7.
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