Poetics by aristotle7/5/2023 Rhythm alone without tune is employed by dancers in their representations, for by means of rhythmical gestures they represent both character and experiences and actions. For tune and rhythm alone are employed in flute-playing and harp-playing and in any other arts which have a similar function, as, for example, pipe-playing. For just as by the use both of color and form people represent many objects, making likenesses of them- some having a knowledge of art and some working empirically-and just as others use the human voice so is it also in the arts which we have mentioned, they all make their representations in rhythm and language and tune, using these means either separately or in combination. Epic poetry, then, and the poetry of tragic drama, and, moreover, comedy and dithyrambic poetry, and most flute-playing and harp-playing, these, speaking generally, may all be said to be "representations of life." But they differ one from another in three ways: either in using means generically different or in representing different objects or in representing objects not in the same way but in a different manner.
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