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Show 8 THE CODE OF TERPSICHORE. Israelites performed in honour of the golden calf, proclaim its antiquity. These two arts were in the sequel reduced to certain rules and limits by ingenious and inventive artists. W e are informed by Moses that the inventor of music was Jubal, who was of the family of Cain; and that his brother, Tubalcain, was a worker in brass and iron . It is, therefore, to be supposed that he conceived the idea from the reiterated blows of his brother's hammers on the anvil, the sounds of which induced him to compose musical tones, and regulate their time and cadence. But Macro-bius and Boetius give the honour of the discovery to Pythagoras, which he made in a similar manner. They say, that as the philosopher passed by a forge, he remarked the sounds that issued from the anvil as the hammers struck on it in rotation ; and the variety of notes thus produced, gave him the first hint towards laying down rules for the art of melody. With respect to the origin of dancing, Burette has gathered the following information from ancient writers:- Opinions do not agree as to the names and country of those from w h o m the Greeks received the first lessons of such an exercise (dancing). Some pretend, and amongst the number Theophrastus, that a certain flute player, named Andron, a native of Catania, in Sicily, was the first who accompanied the notes of his flute with various movements of the body, which fell in harmony with his music; and that it was for this reason that the ancient Greeks expressed the verb to dance by o-iXfW{«», wishing it thereby to be understood, that they originally derived dancing from Sicily. Lucian attributes its invention to Rhea, who taught it to her priests in Phrygia, and the Island of Crete'. Others suppose that it is owing to the Tomans, or, at least, |