Episode 1: Before the Panic: Plato, the Modes, and the State’s First Claim on Sound (c. 380 BCE – 4th century CE)
An ancient Greek learning music entered a world much larger than the modern category suggests. Mousikē joined song, poetry, rhythm, movement, education, and performance. It accompanied ritual, helped structure civic education, and participated in the formation of people who were expected to occupy particular places within the community. Music belonged inside the machinery by which…