"Let me remind you how the Ancients always extolled music, and held it to be sacred, and the wisest philosophers were of opinion that the world was created through music, and the heavens bring forth harmony in their motion, and even our human soul came into being in the same manner, so that its virtues can be awekened and, so to speak, enlived by music."
 
Baldasar Castiglione in Il Cortegiano