1. What is Music?
... opposition as similar to "the duality of the sexes, involving perpetual strife with only periodically intervening reconciliations."" He is saying here that as men and women must come together to procreate, the opposing gods of art, too, come together to form "an equally Dionysian and Apollonian form of art "Attic tragedy."" Dionysus represents the collapse of the "principle of individuation ... preferred in education, but modes of action and passion would be appropriate for recreation. Aristotle believed that music had the power to mold one's character. Rhythm and melody imitate anger and...
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