Music and Poetry
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Excerpt from Music and Poetry: Essays Upon Some Aspects and Inter-Relations of the Two Arts Themistocles being "desired at a feast to touch a lute, said ´he could not fiddle, but yet he could make a small town a great city.´ If a true survey be taken of councillors and statesmen, there may be found (though rarely) those that can make a small state great and yet cannot fiddle; as, on the other side, there will be found a great many that can fiddle very cunningly but yet. . . their gift lieth the other way, to bring a great and flouring estate to ruin and decay. And certainly those degenerate arts and shift whereby many councillors and governors gain both favor with their masters and estimation with the vulgar deserve no better name than fiddling, being things rather pleasing for the time, and graceful to themselves only, than tending to the weal and advancement of the state which they serve." My Lord Bacon has here used the term "fiddling" - with a propriety wholly unsuspected by himself - to denote the whole corpus of musical art. He clearly believes that in discussing the value of musical as opposed to political affairs he has expressed the pithiest possible contempt for the former by the mere nickname he has given them in translating the most of Themistocles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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