Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Shakespeare’s view of the value of music from The Merchant of Venice: Orsino, his name, sits and thinks about love fondlyas he listens to musicians. Shakespeare writes about a young hopeless romanticwho is in love with love. Although he probably didn’t use music in his own work, he had a fondnessfor it. The great Shakespeare had some wise words aboutmusic. It helps the audience now, feel and try tounderstand the play as a whole. It’s almost as if, it’s not a Greek tragedywithout some kind of song. The chorus and their singingand dancing helped that expression. Greek tragedies dealt with many themes andemotions through the myths and stories they told. This was somewhat the summation or conclusion of the events in the play. The antistophe is sung when the chorus moves from left to right.(“answering the strophe).

The strophe is sung as the chorus moves right to left.

They alternate with the spoken episodes or parados or exodos. It is divided into strophe and antistrophe. They usually have strophes, antistrophes, and an epode.

An ode is what they called the chorus songs.Thesongs fit perfectly into the story and sometimes helped the audience understanda character’s internal conflicts. The structure of most famous plays was complex andmade good use of the chorus. Forexample, in Trojan Women, the chorus wasthe women pleading and trying to reason with the frantic, naïve, or arrogantcharacters. Music can do, and did, many things for tragedy.Tragedy writers used dramatic choruses to help tell the tale, myth, act as thecharacters judge, etc. The name “dithyramb” comes from another title ofDionysus, “Dithyrambos”. The dithyramb originated as the ancient Greek hymnsung to the god Dionysus. At the well-planned and well-funded event, thedithyramb was performed. Tragedy originates from the Greek “Goat Song”. Itwas only natural that when Greek Tragedians wrote their plays, they used musicto help the story. New technologies developed and instrumentsevolved into things as complex as electric guitars and digital sound boards.

Music came from their voices, their bodies, andinstruments they beat or blew on. Primarily to communicate and then for aesthetic purposes as humansdiscovered new things. Humans have been organizing sound since the dawn oftime. A roomwith dark shadows cast on the wall would probably have a dark theme toaccompany it and set the scene. Melodies are easily remembered because theyare repetitive and can store much information. Everything, from commercials to children’s cartoons, includesmusic. Music has become fundamental in modern drama andentertainment as a whole. “Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul forthe education of its virtue. Greekphilosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies, andvertically as harmonies. Music is defined broadly as organized sound “pleasant” to the ear. O Art of arrangingsounds: the art of arranging or makingsounds, usually those of musical instruments or voices, so as to create aneffect O An art of sound in time that expresses ideas andemotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony,and color. It gives soul to the universe,wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life andto everything.

Strophes antistrophe episodes