. In these times of celebration and year-end rankings, it is good to remember the old grumpy:
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"What's more artificial today that our music imitates the twitter of birds using a multiple so many votes? What would Emérèpes this ephor of Sparta who cut the ax two of the nine strings the lyre musician Phrynis saying: "Do not corrupt the music!" What would he say if he heard today that reproduces in churches with a single organ, trumpets, horns, horns, flutes open flutes to sound more serious, the flutes in his hoarse, thunder, human voices and the songs of birds? Our music is a reflection of our clothing, such as that of our food or that of our architecture. It is found nowhere simplicity of yesteryear, the number of refinements artificial growing day by day. Thus, as long as the morals of the men had not been corrupted, their language was also stayed sober: it would be easy to discover by comparing ancient writers and authors more lately, with Galen, like Hippocrates, Socrates with Chrysippus. Today all wisdom has degenerated into a gossip more than sophistry, and that's why she lost the name of wisdom, it has come to be despised, and is still little almost as honored by spirits that have nothing brilliant. "
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Erasmus Language (Lingua - 1525), published in Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi IV-1 A, pp. 52-53 , 880-892.
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"What's more artificial today that our music imitates the twitter of birds using a multiple so many votes? What would Emérèpes this ephor of Sparta who cut the ax two of the nine strings the lyre musician Phrynis saying: "Do not corrupt the music!" What would he say if he heard today that reproduces in churches with a single organ, trumpets, horns, horns, flutes open flutes to sound more serious, the flutes in his hoarse, thunder, human voices and the songs of birds? Our music is a reflection of our clothing, such as that of our food or that of our architecture. It is found nowhere simplicity of yesteryear, the number of refinements artificial growing day by day. Thus, as long as the morals of the men had not been corrupted, their language was also stayed sober: it would be easy to discover by comparing ancient writers and authors more lately, with Galen, like Hippocrates, Socrates with Chrysippus. Today all wisdom has degenerated into a gossip more than sophistry, and that's why she lost the name of wisdom, it has come to be despised, and is still little almost as honored by spirits that have nothing brilliant. "
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Erasmus Language (Lingua - 1525), published in Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi IV-1 A, pp. 52-53 , 880-892.
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