{"id":1083,"date":"2011-04-14T12:55:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T16:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2013-08-29T18:03:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T22:03:58","slug":"analects-of-the-core-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/04\/14\/analects-of-the-core-114\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Plato on musical innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The newest song which the singers have, they will be afraid that  <a name=\"208\"><\/a>he may be praising, not new songs, but a new kind of song; and this ought  <a name=\"209\"><\/a>not to be praised, or conceived to be the meaning of the poet; for any  <a name=\"210\"><\/a>musical innovation is full of danger to the whole State, and ought to be  <a name=\"211\"><\/a>prohibited. So Damon tells me, and I can quite believe him;-he says that  <a name=\"212\"><\/a>when modes of music change, of the State always change with  <a name=\"213\"><\/a>them. <a name=\"214\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Plato, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Republic-Other-Works-Plato\/dp\/0385094973\"><em>The Republic<\/em><\/a> (Book IV), translator Benjamin Jowett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest song which the singers have, they will be afraid that he may be praising, not new songs, but a new kind of song; and this ought not to be praised, or conceived to be the meaning of the poet; for any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole State, and ought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,5724,4218,5723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}