Muse

The word muse is used figuratively to denote someone who inspires an artist. The campaign responded by dropping the song from their playlist. The poet Sappho of Lesbos was also paid the very great compliment of being called "the tenth Muse". The band made the news briefly in late October 2004 when John Hall publicly commented that the Bush presidential campaign never received permission to use the song at campaign events. One side-effect of this movement was the use of the word "museum" (originally, "cult place of the Muses") to refer to a place for the public display of knowledge. Hall quit his solo career and reunited with the band in the early 1990s, releasing a few recordings on the band's own label, Major Records. nine Muses), and was attended by Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin. Kelly died of a heroin overdose in 1984.

A popular Masonic lodge in pre-Revolutionary Paris was called Neuf Soeurs ("nine sisters", i.e. They continued performing, in spite of a diminishing audience, and released One of a Kind in 1982. Many Enlightenment figures sought to re-establish a "Cult of the Muses" in the 18th century. Orleans, meanwhile, got another hit with Forever's "Love Takes Time". The Library of Alexandria and its circle of scholars were formed around a mousaion ("museum" or shrine of the Muses) close by the tomb of Alexander the Great. In 1977, Hall left to begin a solo career and became active in the anti-nuclear program, cofounding Musicians United for Safe Energy. Muse-worship was also often associated with the hero-cults of poets: the tombs of Archilochus on Thasos and Hesiod and Thamyris (whom they blinded) in Boeotia all played host to festivals in which poetic recitations were accompanied by sacrifices to the Muses. The song was used as a slogan by ABC television in 1977.

The Muses were especially venerated in Boeotia, near Helicon, and in Delphi and the Parnassus, where Apollo became known as Mousagetes "Muse-leader". "Still The One" from their follow-up LP Waking and Dreaming was their second big hit. The Muses were also occasionally referred to as Corycides or Corycian nymphs after a cave on Mount Parnassos called the Corycian Cave. One of its singles, "Dance with Me", became a Billboard top ten song in 1975. Other fountains, called Hippocrene and Pirene were also important to the Muses. After ABC dropped the group, their self-produced second album, Let There Be Magic, came out on Asylum Records in 1974. They were sometimes called Aganippids because of their association with a fountain called Aganippe. Their debut album was Orleans, recorded in Muscle Shoals.

Local cults of the Muses were often associated with springs or fountains. The band signed with ABC Records in 1973. When Pythagoras arrived at Croton, his first advice to the Crotoniates was to build a shrine of the Muses at the center of the city, to promote civic harmony and learning. Lance Hoppen, Larry's brother, joined the band later in that year. And Dante Alighieri, in Canto II of The Inferno:. The band took their name from New Orleans because that city was home to the mixture of music they played when the band was founded. .. The band was founded in January 1972 in Ulster County, New York by Wells Kelly, John Hall and Larry Hoppen.

Two classic examples: Homer, Book I of The Odyssey:. Orleans is a 1970s soft rock band, best known today for "Dance with Me" and "Still the One". Originally the invocation of the Muse was an indication that the speaker was working inside the poetic tradition, according to the established formulae. They have served as aid to an author, or as the true speaker for which an author is only a mouthpiece. The muses are typically invoked at or near the beginning of an epic poem or story.

They blinded Thamyris for his hubris in challenging them to a contest. They also gathered the pieces of the dead body of Orpheus, son of Calliope, and buried them. The Muses judged the contest between Apollo and Marsyas. Solon sought to perpetuate his political reforms by establishing recitations of his poetry—complete with invocations to his practical-minded Muses—by Athenian boys at festivals every year.

For poet and lawgiver Solon (fragment 13), the Muses were the key to the good life, since they brought both prosperity and friendship. Herodotus, whose primary medium of delivery was public recitation, named each one of the nine books of his Histories after a different Muse. In the archaic period, before the widespread availability of books, this included nearly all of learning: the first Greek book on astronomy, by Thales, was set in dactylic hexameter, as were many works of pre-Socratic philosophy; both Plato and the Pythagoreans explicitly included philosophy as a sub-species of mousike (Strabo 10.3.10). The Muses were therefore both the embodiments and sponsors of performed metrical speech: mousike, whence "music", was the art of the Muses.

The word is probably derived from the Indo-European root *men-, which is also the source of Greek Mnemosyne, Latin Minerva, and English "mind", "mental" and "memory". In Pindar, to "carry a mousa" is "to sing a song". Greek mousa is a common noun as well as a type of goddess: it literally means "song" or "poem". In Roman, Renaissance and Neoclassical art, Muses depicted in sculptures or paintings are often distinguished by certain props or poses, as emblems. Euterpe (music) carries a flute; Calliope (epic poetry) carries a writing tablet; Clio (history) carries a scroll and books; Erato (lyric poetry) is often seen with a lyre and a crown of roses; Melpomene (tragedy) is often seen with a tragic mask; Polyhymnia (sacred poetry) is often seen with a pensive expression; Terpsichore (dancing) is often seen dancing and carrying a lyre; Thalia (comedy) is often seen with a comic mask; and Urania (astronomy) carries a staff pointed at a celestial globe.

However, the association of specific muses with specific art forms is a later innovation, and has been called pedantic. Together, they form a complete picture of the subjects proper to poetic art in the archaic period. The canonical nine Muses are:. Together, they form the complete picture of the preconditions of poetic art in cult practice.

9.29.1). According to Pausanias there were three original Muses: Aoide ("song", "voice"), Melete ("practice" or "occasion") and Mneme ("memory") (Paus. Compare the Roman inspiring nymphs of springs, the Camenae. For Alcman and Mimnermus, they were even more primordial, springing from Uranus and Gaia.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, they are the daughters of Zeus, king of the gods, and Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. The Olympian system set Apollo as their leader, Apollon Mousagetes.. They were water nymphs, associated with the springs of Helicon and Pieris. In Greek mythology, the Muses (Greek Μουσαι, Mousai) are nine archaic goddesses who embody the right evocation of myth, inspired through remembered and improvised song and traditional music and dances.

Urania (astronomy). Thalia (comedy). Terpsichore (dancing). Polyhymnia (sacred poetry).

Melpomene (tragedy). Erato (lyric poetry). Clio (history). Calliope (epic poetry).

Euterpe (music).