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VGW(RI.773.053
24 Jun 1773:13 (372)
When his Majesty was observing, the other day, to what high
perfection modern music was arrived, the great man to whom
his Majesty spoke made answer, with great submission, that
he was sorry he was not a judge of music, but if Monsieur
Fenelon's (the author of Telemachus) criticism on music was
to be relied on, the ancients were superior to the moderns;
that their music animated and inspired the mind to noble and
great actions; that Alexander, when in the midst of a feast,
surrounded with love and wine, has been roused from his
banquet, and thrown into warlike attitude, on hearing a
Thracian march struck up, which Lysimachus merrily ordered
the music to play in order to surprise his master.
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