Muses of Music

Muses of Music
Information
Movies	Barbie & The Diamond Castle
Voice	Dori: Nicole Oliver Phaedra: Heather Doerksen Melody: Marÿke Hendrikse
Home	Diamond Castle

The muses of music are characters from Barbie & The Diamond Castle. They are spirits of music, and they live in the Diamond Castle. The current muses are Dori, Phaedra and Melody, who replaced Lydia, who was petrified alongside her sidekick, Slyder.

Story

The three original Muses were Dori, Phaedra, and Lydia. They played different kinds of music with their instruments, and had an apprentice named Melody. Each also had the ability to cast magic through the respective musical instrument they played.

In the beginning, the three muses were good friends. However, Lydia grew jealous and desired to be the only muse. Dori and Phaedra respectfully disagreed with her, believing that music was for everyone. Lydia was so furious by this that she stormed out of the Diamond Castle, slamming the door behind her, but not before she promised to come back someday and get the Diamond Castle for herself.

She found an ancient cave filled with magic, and used it to transform her flute into an instrument of powerful dark magic. She also found a servant - a serpent named Slyder. He immediately liked her and she immediately liked him, so she made him her servant. With her new-found powers and her new minion, she returned for the Diamond Castle to take over it, intending to conquer the rest of the world from there. But Dori and Phaedra had heard about Lydia's planned attack and they were prepared. They hid their instruments along with the castle, and gave Melody the key in case anything bad happened to them.

They then went to meet up with Lydia and they tried to reason with her, but she turned on them: She used her flute to turn them and their pegasus into stone. Upon seeing this through her hiding place, Melody ran for her life, with Slyder hot on her trail. Upon seeing a mirror in the possession of an old, homeless woman, Melody used her whistle to send her inside the mirror. Unfortunately, she dropped her whistle and Slyder broke it, trapping Melody in the mirror seemingly forever. And because of what recently happened, Melody became and never spoke a word to anyone.

During their final confrontation with Lydia, Liana, Alexa and Melody combined their singing with the magic of Dori's lyre and Phaedra's bouzouki to defeat Lydia: the combined power of their singing and the muses' instruments generated a barrier that deflected all of Lydia's dark magic right back at her and Slyder, turning them into stone. With that, all of the spells that Lydia had previously cast were broken. The first one to be broken was the one that turned Dori and Phaedra into stone, and they returned to the Diamond Castle on their pegasus, where they were greeted by a joyous embrace from Melody.

As an act of gratitude, Dori and Phaedra crowned Liana and Alexa as the princesses of music. They also made Melody into a true muse since she had proven her worth, and she replaced Lydia as the third muse. She also received a new musical instrument: Lydia's flute, which had reverted back to its former state since all of the dark magic spells were broken.

Despite Melody's offering permanent rooms in the Diamond Castle to Liana and Alexa, the two friends decided to return home. So, Dori and Phaedra gave them magical seeds (which later bloomed into the most gorgeous blossoms) for their garden instead, and Melody promised to visit them whenever she could.

Trivia

• In Greek mythology, Zeus (the Lord of the Gods) and Mnemosyne (the Goddess of Memory) had nine daughters called the muses. They were the personifications of knowledge and the arts. So the outfits of Dori, Phaedra, and Melody (the muses in this film) are Grecian-inspired to enhance their impression of being mythological spirits of songs and music. Dori and Phaedra were also shown to ride winged horses called Pegasus, which are also mystical creatures from Greek mythology.
• Dori's instrument is the lyre.
• Phaedra's instrument is the bouzouki.
• Melody's initial instrument was the whistle, but after it was broken, she was awarded with a new instrument: Lydia's flute, which had reverted back to its uncorrupted condition after all of Lydia's dark magic spells were broken.