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Dedicated to an especial teacher, authentic friend, and generative philosopher: John Russon

Rhythm and melody supply imitations of anger and gentleness, and also of courage and temperance, and of all the qualities contrary to these, and of the other qualities of character, which hardly fall short of the actual affections, as we know from our own experience, for in listening to such strains our souls undergo a change. . . . There seems to be in us a sort of affinity to musical modes and rhythms, which makes some philosophers say that the soul is a harmony.

—Aristotle, Politics 8