Twyla Tharpe Exercise

I chose to do exercise seven in chapter five. It is called name that muse. There are nine muse’s and they represent the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. The nine muse’s are; Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania. The point of this exercise is to put an image to each name so that you can remember its meaning. At first I had to think of how I should go with this exercise and this is what I came up with. Calliope means epic poetry when looking over this word I thought what in this word will remind me of epic and I thought hey it has the word “Cali” in it so that’s how I remember that one. Clio means history so i thought of a historical thing and I came up with Cleopatra which is a very historical name. For Erato which means love poetry gave me the hard time trying to figure out how I can connect the word but then I realized that Erato has every letter the word Heart has in it besides the H so that’s how I memorize that one. Euterpe is definitely that one word where I just have no image or trick to memorize the meaning of Euterpe is music. Melpomene means problem as soon as I saw this word I memorized it because it basically has the word help in it. Polyhymnia was a very quick muse to remember it means sacred song, so to remember it I thought of polytheism which means one god so that’s the sacred part and then it has hymn in it which reminds me of the word rhyme and that’s where I get the song part from. Terpsichore means choral song this was pretty simple because the first image that came to mind was chorus which is music. The muse Thalia gave me a difficult time though. Its meaning is comedy and truthfully I really couldn’t connect this word to anything. The last of the nine muse’s is possibly the easiest to remember its Urania meaning astronomy and obviously the first thing you think of when you hear that name is Uranus the planet. After doing this workout I think it helped expanded my creative thought process and I deffinetly think it’s a very useful exercise.