24 Jun 1773:13 (372)
Virginia Gazette-Williamsburg (Ri)   
VGW(RI.773.053                                                          
24 Jun 1773:13 (372)                                                    
When his Majesty was observing, the other day, to what high             
perfection modern music was arrived, the great man to whom              
his Majesty spoke made answer, with great submission, that              
he was sorry he was not a judge of music, but if Monsieur               
Fenelon's (the author of Telemachus) criticism on music was             
to be relied on, the ancients were superior to the moderns;             
that their music animated and inspired the mind to noble and            
great actions; that Alexander, when in the midst of a feast,            
surrounded with love and wine, has been roused from his                 
banquet, and thrown into warlike attitude, on hearing a                 
Thracian march struck up, which Lysimachus merrily ordered              
the music to play in order to surprise his master.