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Often appears with: the passions and the emotions · music and youth · harmony and rhythm · education and the training of the young · education
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Aristotle concludes that because music powerfully fascinates and moves the soul, it should be taught to youth, whose tastes are naturally drawn to agreeable things and who are suited to music.
From what has been said it is evident what an influence music has over the disposition of the mind, and how variously it can fascinate it: and if it can do this, most certainly it is what youth ought to be instructed in. And indeed the learning of music is particularly adapted to their disposition; for at their time of life they do not willingly attend to anything which is not agreeable; but music is naturally one of…