With regards to the literary art and the musical arts, Aristotle considered epic poetry, tragedy, comedy, Dithyrambic poetry and music to be mimetic or imitative art, each various in imitation by medium, object, and manner. For instance, music imitates with the media of rhythm and harmony, whereas dance imitates with rhythm alone, and poetry with language. Comedy, for example, is a dramatic imitation of males worse than common; whereas tragedy imitates men slightly higher than common. Lastly, the types differ in their manner of imitation—through narrative or character, by way of change or no change, and thru drama or no drama.
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