Muse

The word muse is used figuratively to denote someone who inspires an artist. It ran until December 1976, but the group failed to garner any more success with its music, and they broke up shortly after. The poet Sappho of Lesbos was also paid the very great compliment of being called "the tenth Muse". The show was in the same vein as its predecessor, and became a Top 20 hit. 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. In order to boost recognition among the public, CBS gave the group a variety show in the summer of 1974, after The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour ended its run. nine Muses), and was attended by Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin. The group released a fourth single, "Say Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose," but the sales started to drop off.

A popular Masonic lodge in pre-Revolutionary Paris was called Neuf Soeurs ("nine sisters", i.e. The group waited until 1973 to release their next single, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree." In terms of sales, this single was the most successful in the group's career. Many Enlightenment figures sought to re-establish a "Cult of the Muses" in the 18th century. He chose singers Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson to sing with him when he recorded "Knock Three Times." In early 1971, the single hit #1. 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. The single hit #3 and Tony Orlando decided to change career tracks. 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. After an insistence that he dub his voice over the male vocals in the original track, he had the single released under Dawn, so if the record did not succeed, he would not be known as the lead vocalist.

The Muses were especially venerated in Boeotia, near Helicon, and in Delphi and the Parnassus, where Apollo became known as Mousagetes "Muse-leader". Orlando discovered a song, "Candida," which he decided to pass on recording. The Muses were also occasionally referred to as Corycides or Corycian nymphs after a cave on Mount Parnassos called the Corycian Cave. He stopped singing entirely, publishing music for CBS records instead. Other fountains, called Hippocrene and Pirene were also important to the Muses. He had two Top 40 hits in the early 1960s but he did not have any success for the rest of the decade. They were sometimes called Aganippids because of their association with a fountain called Aganippe. In 1970, Tony Orlando was a failed cover singer.

Local cults of the Muses were often associated with springs or fountains. Tony Orlando and Dawn was a pop music group that was very popular in the 1970s. Their signature hits were "Candida," "Knock Three Times," and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree.". 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. 1976 "Cupid" #22 US. And Dante Alighieri, in Canto II of The Inferno:. 1975 "You're All I Need to Get By" #34 US. .. 1975 "Look in My Eyes Pretty Woman" #11 US.

Two classic examples: Homer, Book I of The Odyssey:. 1975 "Mornin' Beautiful" #14 US. Originally the invocation of the Muse was an indication that the speaker was working inside the poetic tradition, according to the established formulae. 1975 "He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)" #1 US. They have served as aid to an author, or as the true speaker for which an author is only a mouthpiece. 1974 "Steppin' out (Gonna Boogie Tonight)" #7 US. The muses are typically invoked at or near the beginning of an epic poem or story. 1974 "Who's in the Strawberry Patch with Sally" #27 US; #37 UK.

They blinded Thamyris for his hubris in challenging them to a contest. 1973 "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" #3 US; #12 UK (1974 release). They also gathered the pieces of the dead body of Orpheus, son of Calliope, and buried them. 1973 "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree" #1 US; #1 UK. The Muses judged the contest between Apollo and Marsyas. 1971 "What are You Doing Sunday" #39 US; #3 UK. 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. 1971 "Summer Sand" #33 US.

For poet and lawgiver Solon (fragment 13), the Muses were the key to the good life, since they brought both prosperity and friendship. 1971 "I Play and Sing" #25 US. Herodotus, whose primary medium of delivery was public recitation, named each one of the nine books of his Histories after a different Muse. 1971 "Knock Three Times" #1 US; #1 UK. 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). 1971 "Candida" #3 US; #9 UK. The Muses were therefore both the embodiments and sponsors of performed metrical speech: mousike, whence "music", was the art of the Muses. To Be With You (1976).

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". Skybird (1975). In Pindar, to "carry a mousa" is "to sing a song". He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) (1975). Greek mousa is a common noun as well as a type of goddess: it literally means "song" or "poem". Golden Ribbons (1974). 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. Prime Time (1974).

However, the association of specific muses with specific art forms is a later innovation, and has been called pedantic. Dawn's New Ragtime Follies (1973). Together, they form a complete picture of the subjects proper to poetic art in the archaic period. Tuneweaving (1973). The canonical nine Muses are:. Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando (1971). Together, they form the complete picture of the preconditions of poetic art in cult practice. Candida (1970).

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).