Motif
contest between rustic and refined music
contest_between_rustic_and_refined_music
A motif of the Enchanting Music and Sound Power family, within the sub-family Musical Style, Civic Preference, and Human Formation. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE ELEVENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6103-6154 confidence: high
Pan boasts to the Nymphs, plays reeds joined with wax, despises Apollo’s playing, and comes to a contest arbitrated by Tmolus.
Pan’s rustic reeds are judged against Apollo’s ornamented lyre, and the lyre is declared superior.
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