Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aristotle

69284Complete Encyclopaedia of Music — AristotleJohn Weeks Moore

Aristotle, the celebrated philosopher and preceptor of Alexander the Great, wrote a work on music, which is now lost. He also treats on the utility of music, in the eighth book of his " Politics." It was in his old age that he applied himself to the practice of the science of music, which he called "the medicine of heaviness."