'''''The Lost Music'' was his way of talking about the way he believed that old wives' tales and dance tunes and folktales were just the tangled echoes of something that's not quite of this world … something we all knew once, but have forgotten since.'''

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "'''''The Lost Music'' was his way of talking about the way he believed that old wives' tales and dance tunes and folktales were just the tangled echoes of something that's not quite of this world … something we all knew once, but have forgotten since.'''" in the context of "Part One: The Hidden People, "The Quarrlsome Piper" p. 19" to mean that wisdom is timeless.