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But let us discuss the
advantages which our future orator may reasonably
expect to derive from the study of Music.
Music has two modes of expression in the voice
and in the body;1 for both voice and body require
to be controlled by appropriate rules. Aristoxenus
divides music, in so far as it concerns the voice, into
rhythm and melody, the one consisting in measure,
the latter in sound and song. Now I ask you whether
it is not absolutely necessary for the orator to be
acquainted with all these methods of expression
which are concerned firstly with gesture, secondly
with the arrangement of words and thirdly with the
inflexions of the voice, of which a great variety are
required in pleading.
1 Music includes dancing.
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