What is music?  Why do we listen to it?  What are its effects upon us?
What types of music are appropriate and what arent? These are
questions that have been explored by us over and over again 
over the centuries.  At the present time we use it for many
reasons--to relax, to enjoy ourselves, to affect our audience, to
incite a political or social reaction.  1500 years ago the Greeks were
addressing these same issues....the Greek ideal was a sound body and
mind, a balance of all things to contribute to a perfect being.  Music
was thought of as a means to achieve part of this.  They persued
gymnastics to perfect the body and the arts to balance this and
perfect the mind. Improper music was thought to make a person weak, or
immoral, and for this reason was to be avoided.