tribute,
because deity is not to be represented by any visible symbol.

TERPSIC'HOR[^E] [_Terp.sick'.o.ry_], Muse of choral song and dance: a lyre
and the plectrum.

THALI'A, Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry: a comic mask, a shepherd's
staff, or a wreath of ivy.

URAN'IA, Muse of astronomy: carries a staff pointing to a globe.

=Museum= (_A Walking_), Long[=i]nus, author of a work on _The Sublime_
(213-273).

=Musgrave= (_Sir Richard_), the English champion who fought with Sir
William Deloraine, the Scotch champion, to decide by combat whether
young Scott, the heir of Branksome Hall, should become the page of King
Edward, or be delivered up to his mother. In the combat, Sir Richard was
slain, and the boy was delivered over to his mother.--Sir W. Scott, _Lay
of the Last Minstrel_ (1805).

_Musgrave_ (_Sir Miles_), an officer in the king's service under the
earl of Montrose.--Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time, Charles
I.).

=Music.= Amphion is said to have built the walls of Thebes by the music of
his lyre. Ilium and the capital of Arthur's kingdom were also built to
divine music. The city of Jericho was destroyed by music (_Joshua_ vi.
20).

They were building still, seeing the city was built
To music.

Tennyson.

_Music and Men of Genius._ Hume, Dr. Johnson, Sir W. Scott, Robert Peel
and Lord Byron had no ear for music, and neither vocal nor instrumental
music gave them the slightest pleasure. To the poet Rogers it gave
actual discomfort. Even the harmonious Pope preferred the harsh
dissonance of a street organ to Handel's oratorios.

_Music_ (_Father of_), Giovanni Battista Pietro Aloisio da Palestri'na
(1529-1594).

_Music_ (_Father of Greek_), Terpander (fl. B.C. 676).

=Music's First Martyr.= Menaphon says that when he was in Thessaly he saw
a youth challenge the birds in music; and a nightingale took up the
challenge. For a time the contest was uncertain; but then the youth, "in
a rapture," played so cunningly that the bird, despairing, "down dropped
upon his lute, and brake her heart."

[Asterism] This beautiful tale, by Strada (in Latin) has been translated
in rhyme by R. Crashaw. Versions have been given by Ambrose Philips, and
others; but none can compare with the exquisite relation of John Ford,
in his drama entitled _The Lover's Melancholy_ (1628).

=Musical Small-Coal Man=, Thos. Britton, who used to sell small coals and
keep a musical club (1654-1714).