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The Republic

INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS
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Now in the descriptive style there are few changes, but in the dramatic there are a great many.

Poets and musicians use either, or a compound of both, and this compound is very attractive to youth and their teachers as well as to the vulgar.

But our State in which one man plays one part only is not adapted for complexity.

And when one of these polyphonous pantomimic gentlemen offers to exhibit himself and his poetry we will show him every observance of respect, but at the same time tell him that there is no room for his kind in our State; we prefer the rough, honest poet, and will not depart from our original models (Laws).
Next as to the music.

A song or ode has three parts,--the subject, the harmony, and the rhythm; of which the two last are dependent upon the first.


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