from the writings of Aristotle, he talks about the different purposes that music encompasses for its listeners; education, purgation, and pleasure. When discussing music in the sense of pleasure, Aristotle (the scholar), includes the following statements that go along with my notions of how music does indeed affect the listener. For example he states, “Rhythm and melodies within a song supply imitations of anger and gentleness, and also of courage and temperance, and of all the qualities contrary…
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