Music is more powerful than reason in the soul. That is also why Plato made music the very first step in his long educational curriculum: good music was to create the harmony of soul that would be a ripe field for the higher harmony of reason to take root in later. And that is also why he said that the decay of the ideal state would begin with a decay in music. In fact, one of your obscure modern scholars has shown that social and political revolutions have usually been preceded by musical revolutions, and why another sage said, 'Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who writes its laws. . Peter Kreeft
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In the musical sense, when one hears a piece of music, it is not so much the notes themselves that are being heard, but an emotional response to the composition. In the same way, when you read a piece of literature or a poem, it is not so much what you are reading that is being heard, but rather your emotional response to the words. Likewise, when you listen to a piece of music, it is not so much the notes themselves that are being heard, but rather a message that is being given.

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