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Explanation of the Word “Music”

From the Greek “muses” who were the 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. As legend has it,
the muses had no individual attributes for a very long time and they equally patronized every
form of music and poetry. The muses only developed individual characteristics in the 4th century
B.C.
The 9 Muses are:
1. Calliope—Patron of the epic poem
2. Clio—Patron of history
3. Terpsichore—Patron of light poetry and dancing
4. Melpomene—Patron of tragedy
5. Thalia—Patron of comedy
6. Polyhymnia—Patron of lyric poetry
7. Erato—Patron of elegiac poetry
8. Urania—Patron of astronomy
9. Euterp—Patron of Music
The Greeks word for museum, mouseion, referred to a shrine with priests and sacrifices that was
centered on a cult for the muses.

Source:
maxwellmuseum.unm.edu/sites/default/files/public/World%20...

The exotic dancer in the photo is most likely playing the role of a muse, named Terpischore a patron of light and dancing. As explained in my previous comment. I could not discover the identity of the dancer, yet at least there it seems she performed in Tivoli theatre in a role originating from Greek mythology.

Also, it seems the word is spelled as Terpischore rather than Terpoichore, as the writing on the photo also confirms.

In Greek mythology, Terpsichore (/tərpˈsɪkəriː/; Τερψιχόρη, "delight in dancing") is one of the nine Muses and goddess of dance and chorus.[1] She lends her name to the word "terpsichorean" which means "of or relating to dance".

Terpsichore is usually depicted sitting down, holding a lyre, accompanying the dancers' choirs with her music.

Terpsichore was also said to be the mother of the Sirens (including Parthenope) by the river-god Achelous.

Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpsichore

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/146569389 - Table Talk, 12th April, 1923...possibly the same dancer here...

Apparently part of this larger image:

NYT of May 20, 1917 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60C10FB395E11738... reports on her engagement to Howard Ogden Wood, Jr. Her father was Charles L. Hackstaff of 7 East 54th St., New York, NY www.mytrees.com/ancestry/Other/Born-1895/Ha/Hackstaff-fam... indicates that she was born in 1895 and her mother was Margaret Euphemia Hoffman

memory.loc.gov/service/sgp/sgpnyt/1916/191601/19160130/00... NYT from Jan 30, 1916 has another picture of her in a similar entertainment

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058396/1915-11-20/ed-...

Transcribed: "Miss Margaret Read, daughter of Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. George W. Read, and one of the most popular among the social buds who have not yet "come out," will make her first bow to Washington society December 2. She will be presented at a tea-dance given by General and Mrs. S. B. M. Young, U. S. A., the former the grandfather of Miss Read."

See also: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88084272/1917-12-22/ed-...

What was the childhood rhyme my mother used to say for me? There was a little girl
BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

splendidi occhi e belle labbra